John Dixon
(circa 1740-1811), EngraverArtist associated with 47 portraits
Dublin-born Dixon trained at the drawing school of the Dublin Society and moved to London around 1765. He exhibited at the Society of Artist from 1766. In 1769, he was one of those appointed to arrange models at the society's teaching academy. He was a director in 1770-71, and again from 1772 to 1775. Most of Dixon's early plates were published by William Wynne Ryland. His work was distinguished and included several of the most highly rated plates of the day, including A Tigress, after George Stubbs (1772) and Reynolds's most celebrated history painting, Ugolino (1774). In 1775, Dixon married wealthy widow, Ann Kempe, after which he ceased working and lived a life of leisure.
by John Dixon
mezzotint, published 1772
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by John Dixon, after Robert Edge Pine
mezzotint, published 1773
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by John Dixon, after Robert Edge Pine
mezzotint, published 1773
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Mary (née O'Brien), Countess of Orkney
by John Dixon, published by William Wynne Ryland, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 29 September 1774
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William Robert Fitzgerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
by and published by John Dixon, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 19 May 1775 (1774)
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by John Dixon, published by Robert Wilkinson, after Thomas Hudson
mezzotint, published 11 October 1779 (1761)
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