Thomas Goff Lupton
(1791-1873), EngraverSitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 131 portraits
Thomas Goff Lupton was a mezzotint engraver and miniature painter who was the first artist to use soft steel plates in the art of engraving. He experimented with plates of nickel, steel and other metals before producing a satisfactory steel plate. It was well received, and from 1823, steel engravings superseded copper engravings. This development permitted a printing of up to 1,500 mezzotints of excellent quality. The copper plates formerly used were very soft and could produce only around fifty prints of similar quality. Lupton's works include copies of landscape series by J.M.W. Turner as well as engraved portraits after oil paintings by eminent contemporary British painters.
by Thomas Goff Lupton, after George Clint
mezzotint, probably 1860s
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after James Lonsdale
mezzotint
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after James Lonsdale
mezzotint
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after and published by Edward Fancourt
mezzotint
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after George Sharples
mezzotint
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 1819
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after Unknown artist
mezzotint, published 1832
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, after Thomas Phillips
mezzotint, based on a work of 1837
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by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Thomas Agnew, after William Bradley
mixed-method engraving, published 1 November 1837
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Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry
by Thomas Goff Lupton, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Sir John Watson-Gordon
mixed-method engraving, published 25 March 1846
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by and published by Thomas Goff Lupton, after John Prescott Knight
mezzotint, published 15 July 1850 after a work of 1848
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