Thomas Wright
(1792-1849), Painter and engraverArtist associated with 44 portraits
Served an apprenticeship with Henry Meyer. In around 1817, he began to practise independently as a stipple engraver and executed portraits in pencil and miniature. He made plates for Mrs Anna Jameson's The Beauties of the Court of King Charles II (1831-33) and also some of the plates, after Holbein, Walker and van Dyck, for Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1823-34). Wright spent time in Russia: from 1822-1826 and for fifteen years from 1830, working under court patronage. There he brought out a series of portraits entitled Les Contemporains Russes, drawn and engraved by himself and published in St Petersburg.
by Thomas Wright, published by Martin Colnaghi, after Stephen Catterson Smith
stipple engraving, published May 1829 (1828)
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Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Ellenborough
by Thomas Wright, published by Whittaker & Co, and published by Martin Colnaghi, after Henry Collen
stipple engraving, published June 1829
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Jane Elizabeth, Countess of Ellenborough
by Thomas Wright, published by Whittaker & Co, and published by Martin Colnaghi, after Henry Collen
stipple engraving, published June 1829
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by Thomas Wright, published by William Henry Mason, after William Drummond
stipple engraving, published 1 September 1848 (1847)
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