Samuel Davenport (engraver)

Samuel Davenport (1783–1867) was an English line engraver. He was one of the earliest to engrave on steel.[1]

Life

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Davenport was born at Bedford, 10 December 1783: while he was still small, his father, an architect and surveyor, moved to London. There he was in due course articled to Charles Warren. His earlier works were book illustrations after the designs of Henry Chawner Shenton, Henry Corbould, and others; but subsequently he engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works. He died 15 July 1867.[2] His son, Samuel Thomas Davenport (born 1821), was also an engraver.[3]

Works

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Beer Street, 1833 engraving by Samuel Davenport after William Hogarth

Davenport is said by Redgrave to have 700 portraits for one publication alone. Examples of his work are the plates which he engraved for the Forget-Me-Not annual between 1828 and 1842, and which include:[2]

All these plates were engraved on steel, which he was one of the earliest to adopt. He also engraved a small plate of The Infant St. John the Baptist, after Murillo.[2]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. Oxford University Press. 21 June 2012. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2.
  2. ^ a b c Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davenport, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Boase, Frederic (1965). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Between the Years 1851-1900, with an Index of the Most Interesting Matter. Barnes & Noble. p. 36.

Attribution

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainStephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davenport, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.