FRANCESCO, a very celebrated designer and engraver, was the son of a silversmith at Florence, in which city he was born about the year 1730. After studying at Venice and at Rome, in 1764 he came to England at the invitation of Mr Dalton, the king's librarian, and soon afterwards was elected a member of the Royal Academy. He was induced by an offer of the Prince Regent of Portugal to remove to Lisbon, where it is supposed he died about the year 1815; though some place that event at London in 1819. The productions of his graver are very numerous, and are greatly esteemed by collectors.