Richard Earlom (1742-1822), English mezzotint engraver, was born and died in London. His natural faculty for art appears to have been first called into exercise by admiration for the lord mayor's state coach, just decorated by Giovanni Battista Cipriani. He tried to copy the paintings, and was sent to study under Cipriani. He displayed great skill as a draughtsman, and at the same time acquired without assistance the art of engraving in mezzotint.

John Raphael Smith (1752 - March 2, 1812), English painter and mezzotint engraver, a son of Thomas Smith of Derby, the landscape painter, was born in 1752. He was apprenticed to a linen-draper in Derby, and afterwards pursued the same business in London, adding, however, to his income by the production of miniatures. He then turned to engraving and executed his plate of the "Public Ledger," which had great popularity, …

Valentine Green (1739-1813), British engraver, was born at Halesowen. He was placed by his father in a solicitor's office at Evesham, where he remained for two years; but ultimately he decided, on his own responsibility, to abandon the legal profession and became a pupil of a line engraver at Worcester. In 1765 he migrated to London and began work as a mezzotint engraver, having taught himself the technicalities of this art, …

Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17 1898 - March 27 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.

Samuel Cousins (May 9, 1801-May 7, 1887) was an English mezzotint engraver, born at Exeter. He was preeminently the interpreter of Sir Thomas Lawrence, his contemporary. During his apprenticeship to S. W. Reynolds he engraved many of the best amongst the three hundred and sixty little mezzotints illustrating the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds which his master issued in his own name. In the finest of his numerous transcripts of Lawrence, …

Ludwig von Siegen (1609 ?Utrecht - c1680 ? Wolfenbüttel, Germany) was a German soldier and amateur engraver, who invented the printmaking technique of mezzotint, a variant of engraving. He was a well-educated aristocrat, and a Lieutenant-Colonel who commanded the personal guard of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, and acted as a personal aide to the ruler, with the title "kammerjunker" or chamberlain.

John Sartain (24 October, 1808 in London, England - 25 October 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an artist who pioneered mezzotint engraving in the United States. At the age of twenty-two he emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia. Early in his career he painted portraits in oil and made miniatures; he engraved plates in 1841-1848 for "Graham's Magazine", …

Thomas Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest work are a pair of pastel portraits of boys, one dated 1734 (Earl of Iveagh). For the Worshipful Company of Saddlers he painted a full-length portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales (1736, destroyed 1940), which he engraved in mezzotint and published in 1741. With his silent partner, a London merchant Edward Heylin, …

Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria (German: "Ruprecht Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, Herzog von Bayern"), commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 - 19 November 1682), soldier, inventor and amateur artist in mezzotint, was a younger son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart, and the nephew of King Charles I of England, who created him Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness.

Francis Wheatley (1747 - June 28, 1801), was an English portrait and landscape painter, was born at Wild Court, Covent Garden, London. He studied at Shipleys drawing-school and the Royal Academy, and won several prizes from the Society of Arts. He assisted in the decoration of Vauxhall, and aided Mortimer in painting a ceiling for Lord Melbourne at Brocket Hall (Hertfordshire). In youth his life was irregular and dissipated. He eloped to Ireland with the wife of Gresse, …

William Strang (February 3, 1859-1921) was a renowned Scottish painter and engraver. He was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, builder, and educated at the Dumbarton Academy. He worked for fifteen months in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders before going to London in 1875 when he was sixteen. There he studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for six years. Strang became assistant master in the etching class, …

George Dawe was an English portraitist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon's invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace. He worked in Saint Petersburg since 1819, winning acclaim from the artistic establishment and complimentary verses by Pushkin. He was the son of Philip Dawe, a successful mezzotint engraver who also produced political cartoons relating to the events of the Boston Tea Party.

Richard Josey was a prominent mezzotint engraver in Victorian London. Josey was born at Reading in 1840, and received his education at the Reading Blue Coat School. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to Thomas W. Knight, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked in the studio of the Chevalier Ballin. Ballin's influence is evident in Josey's work in stipple and line. His first commission was reportedly given to him by the firm of Henry Graves and Co., …

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 - 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter. He was born at Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo. Having at an early age executed several pictures for the decoration of the church and public buildings at Aix, he was employed on similar work at Toulon, which he was obliged to leave during the siege of 1707. He was patronized by the prince of Carignan, who sent him to Rome, …

Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 - 28 June 1985) was an American artist and storyteller, and son of Methodist minister and prominent political organizer Harry F. Ward. He illustrated some 200 juvenile and adult books. Ward worked in wood engraving, watercolor, oil, brush and ink, lithography and mezzotint. Ward spent his childhood in Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey. When he was in the first grade, Ward discovered that his last name spelled "draw" backwards, …

Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914), British painter, was born at Waal, in Bavaria, and eight years later was brought to England by his father, a wood-carver of great ability. He lived for some time at Southampton and in the school of art there began his art training; but in 1866 he entered upon a more serious course of study at the South Kensington Schools, and in 1869 exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy.

Joseph Grozer (1755-1799) was an English artist and printmaker. The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco has a mezzotint by Grozer titled "Saint John: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Chapter 1, Verse 23" Artprice lists six works by Grozer sold at auction since 1997.

Tavík František Šimon, known as T.F. Simon, was born in what is now called The Czech Republic. Simon was a painter, etcher, and woodcut artist much of whose career took place in Prague, New York City, and Paris, France. His style was strongly influenced by the French Impressionists and, presumably through them, by Japanese printmaking techniques, in particular color aquatints with soft ground etching.

Allart van Everdingen (bapt. Jun 18 1621 Alkmaar - buried Nov 8 1675, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint. Van Everdingen was the son of a government clerk at Alkmaar. He and his older brother, the painter Caesar van Everdingen, if we believe an old tradition, were taught by Roelandt Savery at Utrecht. Allaert wandered in 1645 to Haarlem, where he studied under Pieter de Molyn, and finally settled about 1657 at Amsterdam, …

Maurice Richard Josey was an English mosaic artist. Josey was born in Brixton, London in 1870, son of the renowned mezzotint engraver Richard Josey. The third of fourteen children, Josey was raised and lived in Shepherd's Bush, London. As a youth, Maurice played football for St Jude's Institute, which later became Queens Park Rangers FC. Both he and his brother Thomas studied fine art and became mosaicists. In 1893 Josey married Emily Jane Hatton (c.1864-1961), …

Ernest Stephen Lumsden was a noted etcher and authority on etching. He studied at Reading Art School from 1889 under Frank Morley Fletcher and briefly at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1903. In 1908 he accepted an appointment at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he taught for a few years. He travelled several times to India between 1912 and 1927 and is noted for his prints of Varanasi (Benares) on the River Ganges.

Francis Job Short (June 19, 1857-April 22 1945), English engraver, was born at Stourbridge, Worcestershire. He was educated to be a civil engineer, and was engaged on various works in the Midlands until 1881, when he came to London as assistant to Mr Baldwin Latham in connexion with the Parliamentary Inquiry into the pollution of the river Thames. He was elected an associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in 1883.

Jan van Almeloveen (c. 1652 - after 1683) was a Dutch painter, engraver, and draughtsman of the 17th century, principally known for some neatly-executed etchings of landscapes. He was born c. 1652 in Mijdrecht, according to an inscription on his 1678 mezzotint portrait of his father, Johannes ab Almeloveen, a preacher in that city. He made 38 prints in total, all of which are etchings, mostly landscapes, including Dutch villages and rivers.

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