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RICHARD EARLOM (1742-1822)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:EARLOM (1742-1822)  , See also:English See also:mezzotint en-graver, was See also:born and died in See also:London . His natural See also:faculty for See also:art appears to have been first called into exercise by admiration for the See also:lord See also:mayor's See also:state See also:coach, just decorated by See also:Cipriani . He tried to copy the paintings, and was sent to study under Cipriani . He displayed See also:great skill as a draughtsman, and at the same See also:time acquired without assistance the art of See also:engraving in mezzotint . In 1765 he was employed•_by See also:Alderman See also:Boydell, then one of the most liberal promoters of the See also:fine arts, to make a See also:series of drawings from the pictures at See also:Houghton See also:Hall; and these he afterwards engraved in mezzotint . His most perfect See also:works as engraver are perhaps the See also:fruit and See also:flower pieces after the Dutch artists See also:Van Os and Van See also:Huysum . Amongst his See also:historical and figure subjects are—" See also:Agrippina," after See also:West; " Love in Bondage," after Guido Reni; the " Royal See also:Academy," the " See also:Embassy of Hyderbeck to meet Lord See also:Cornwallis," and a " See also:Tiger See also:Hunt," the last three after See also:Zoffany; and " Lord See also:Heathfield," after See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds . See also:Earlom also executed a series of 200 facsimiles ofthe drawings and sketches of See also:Claude See also:Lorraine, which was published in 3 vols. See also:folio, under the See also:title of See also:Liber veritatis (1777-1819) .

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