James Godby
(active 1790-1815), PrintmakerArtist associated with 44 portraits
James Godby, a printmaker, worked in London in the early part of the nineteenth century. Little is known of his life other than what can be gleaned from his work. His first engraving was a portrait of Edward Snape (1791) after William Whitby. Godby specialised in stipple engraving and favoured the subjects of mythology, sentimental literary genre, and female portraiture that were associated with this medium.
by James Godby, after and published by Robert Bowyer
stipple and line engraving, published 1820 (1810)
NPG D33157
by James Godby, after George Dawe
stipple engraving, published 1823
NPG D21485
William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk
by James Godby, by John Swaine, after Henry Edridge
stipple engraving, published 1806
NPG D20856
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