Richard Earlom
(1743-1822), EngraverSitter in 3 portraits
Artist associated with 107 portraits
One of the greatest mezzotint and stipple engravers of his day, Richard Earlom was apprenticed to the London based engraver, G.B. Cipriani and studied at the St Martin's Lane Academy. He won many prizes for his drawings and engravings. In 1774, he began work for John Boydell for whom he created three hundred plates after Claude, published as the Liber Veritas (1777-1819). He also created for Boydell fifty-one plates after Cipriani. Earlom engraved outstanding works both after the designs of his contemporaries and after the old masters. Boydell commissioned his talents for some of the most famous plates in The Houghton Gallery and The Shakespeare Gallery.
by Richard Earlom, after George Farington, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
mezzotint, published 1778
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by Richard Earlom, after George Farington, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
mezzotint, published 1778
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by Richard Earlom, printed for Robert Sayer, printed for John Bennett, after Benjamin Wilson
mezzotint, published 20 September 1779
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by Richard Earlom, printed for Robert Sayer, printed for John Bennett, after Benjamin Wilson
mezzotint, published 20 September 1779
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by Richard Earlom, printed for Robert Sayer, printed for John Bennett, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 12 February 1780
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by Richard Earlom, printed for Robert Sayer, printed for John Bennett, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 12 February 1780
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by Richard Earlom, published by John Boydell, after Tilly Kettle
mezzotint, published 1782 (exhibited 1782)
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by Richard Earlom, published by John Boydell, after Tilly Kettle
mezzotint, published 22 October 1782 (exhibited 1782)
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George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave
by Richard Earlom, after John Francis Rigaud
mezzotint, circa 1784-1789
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George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave
by Richard Earlom, after John Francis Rigaud
mezzotint, circa 1784-1789
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George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave
by Richard Earlom, after John Francis Rigaud
mezzotint, circa 1784-1789
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by Richard Earlom, published by John Boydell, published by Josiah Boydell, after George Romney
stipple engraving, published 1 August 1787
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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield
by Richard Earlom, published by John Boydell, published by Josiah Boydell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
stipple engraving, published 1 November 1788 (1787)
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by Richard Earlom, published by Robert Sayer, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, published 1 March 1791
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by Richard Earlom, after Unknown artist
mezzotint, published 1793
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by Richard Earlom, after Domenico Pellegrini
mezzotint, published 1797
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by Richard Earlom, published by Benjamin Beale Evans, after Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)
mezzotint, published 1 May 1798
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by Richard Earlom, after Thomas Gainsborough
mezzotint, 1800 (1774)
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by Richard Earlom, published by Josiah Boydell, after Sir William Beechey
mezzotint, published 9 January 1806
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by Richard Earlom, published by Josiah Boydell, after Gainsborough Dupont
mezzotint, published 1 August 1806 (1792)
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