Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Samuel Cousins (1801-1887), Engraver

Mezzotint engraver; one of the leading practitioners of his craft, 1826-83; helped to raise the prestige of his profession; ARA, 1835; first artist to be elected an academician-engraver, 1855; instituted a fund for indigent artists.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.