He lived in London for nearly forty years. He produced an enormous number of engravings, including
Clytie after
Annibale Carracci, and of the Virgin and Child, after
Carlo Dolci. A large proportion of them are from the works of
Cipriani and
Angelica Kauffman. Bartolozzi also contributed a number of plates to
Boydell's
Shakespeare Gallery. He also drew sketches of his own in red chalk. Soon after arriving in London, he was appointed 'Engraver to the King' (
George III) with an annual salary of £300. He was elected a founding member of the
Royal Academy. The new Academy's bylaws specifically excluded engravers but Bartolozzi was so well esteemed that he was brought in as an Academician in the category of Painter. In 1802 he became the founding President of the short-lived
Society of Engravers. While Bartolozzi was not the original inventor of the
crayon manner of engraving, he became a leading exponent that "stipple" method and it became associated with him. With that technique images are created by delicate dots rather than lines as in traditional etchings or engravings. Bartolozzi added distinction to his work by using red (sanguine), orange and brown inks rather than common black ink. As his prominence grew, he took on students including Michele Benedetti, Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe,
Thomas Cheesman,
Lambertus Antonius Claessens,
Daniel Gardner,
Christiaan Josi,
Johan Fredrik Martin, Conrad Martin Metz,
Luigi Schiavonetti,
John Keyse Sherwin, Heinrich Sintzenich,
Peltro William Tomkins,
Domenico Bernardo Zilotti, and
Gavriil Skorodumov. His son
Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, born in 1757, also became an engraver and later fathered
Madame Vestris a celebrated English actress, opera singer, and theater manager. ==Career in Lisbon==