From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Jonathan Spilsbury

British engraver (c.1737–1812)

Summary

British engraver (c.1737–1812)

Jonathan Spilsbury (1737?–1812) was a British engraver, the brother of John Spilsbury, with whom he has sometimes been confused, and father of Maria Spilsbury.

Chimera]] engraved from an antique gem. From a collection issued by [[John Boydell]] and incorrectly attributed by the publisher to John Spilsbury—in fact by Jonathan Spilsbury.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Works

Spilsbury practised chiefly in mezzotint, and between 1759 and 1789 produced many plates, mainly portraits, which included:

Richard Baxter;
John Bunyan, after Thomas Sadler;
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, after William Hoare;
Miss Jacob, and Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, after Joshua Reynolds;
Inigo Jones, after Anthony van Dyck;
John Wesley, after George Romney; and
George III and Queen Charlotte, from his own drawings.

He also engraved subject-pieces after Murillo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Metzu, Angelica Kauffman, and others For his print of Miss Jacob, Spilsbury was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts in 1761, and for that of the Earl of Carlisle another in 1763. He exhibited original portraits and biblical compositions with the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1763, 1770, and 1771, and at the Royal Academy from 1776 to 1784. He contributed a picture of The Widow of Zarepta to the British Institution in 1807.

References

Notes

;Attribution

References

Sloman, Susan. "Spilsbury, Jonathan".

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

18th-century-british-engravers 19th-century-british-engravers 1730s-births 1812-deaths

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Jonathan Spilsbury — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report