John Raphael Smith
bap. 1751 d. 1805
Printmaker and print publisher. Educated at Derby grammar school. Established his reputation with a mezzotint of Joseph Banks. The primary interpreter in mezzotint of Joshua Reynolds’s paintings. Also produced popular prints. Established a European trade in prints until exports were limited by the French Revolution. Opened the Morland Gallery in Covent Garden, London, in 1793. Moved to Doncaster in 1808 and undertook commissions for pastel portraits.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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