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JOHN BOYDELL (1719-1804)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BOYDELL (1719-1804)  , See also:English See also:alderman and publisher, was See also:born at Dorrington, and at the See also:age of twenty-one came to See also:London and was apprenticed for seven years to an engraver . In 1746 he published a See also:volume of views in See also:England and See also:Wales, and started in business as a See also:print-seller . By his See also:good See also:taste and liberality he managed to secure the services of the best artists, and his engravings were executed with such skill that his business became extensive and lucrative . He succeeded in his See also:plan of a See also:Shakespeare See also:gallery, and obtained the assistance of the most eminent painters of the See also:day, whose contributions were exhibited publicly for many years . The engravings from these paintings See also:form a splendid See also:companion volume to his large illustrated edition of Shakespeare's See also:works . Towards the See also:close of his See also:life See also:Boydell sustained severe losses through the See also:French Revolution, and was compelled to dispose of his Shakespeare gallery by lottery . Boydell had previously become an alderman, and See also:rose to be See also:lord See also:mayor of London .

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