Samuel Freeman (engraver)

Samuel Freeman (1773–1857) was an English engraver. He died on 27 February 1857, aged 84.

Portrait of John Napier.

Works

Freeman worked chiefly in stipple, and is principally known as an engraver of portraits. Among these were

He engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations to Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Northern Gallery etc.

For Tresham's British Gallery (1815) Freeman engraved the Stafford Gallery replica of Raphael's La vierge au diadème. He also engraved some of the plates for Jones's National Gallery, and numerous portraits for Fisher's National Portrait Gallery. For James Dallaway's edition of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting he engraved The Marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou from an ancient painting.

References

    Attribution

     This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Freeman, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.