Английская Википедия:Charles Spooner

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use dmy dates Charles Spooner (died 5 December 1767 London) was an Irish mezzotinter, who worked in London towards the end of his life.

Life

He was born in County Wexford, and became a pupil of John Brooks. He came to London before 1756. There he mainly worked making copies of plates by other engravers, for Robert Sayer and Carington Bowles, the printsellers.

Spooner died in London on 5 December 1767, his life being shortened by drink, and was buried beside his friend James Macardell, in Hampstead churchyard.

Works

In Dublin Spooner executed portraits of William Hogarth (1749), Anthony Malone, Samuel Madden (1752), and Thomas Prior (1752). Later he engraved some further portraits, some from his own drawings, as well as genre subjects after Rembrandt, Teniers, Schalken, Mercier, and others.

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Portrait of Sir William Johnson (1756).

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