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 Thomas Goff Lupton, after Gilbert Stuart
mezzotint, published 1819
NPG D1820
by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Hurst, Robinson & Co, after Gilbert Stuart
mezzotint, published 1 February 1819
NPG D1821
by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Hurst, Robinson & Co, after Gilbert Stuart
mezzotint, published 1 February 1819
NPG D1822
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