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ABRAHAM RAIMBACH (1776-1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM
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RAIMBACH (1776-1843)  ,
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English
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line-engraver, a Swiss by descent, was
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born in
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London in 1776 . Educated at
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Archbishop
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Tenison's Library School, he was an apprentice to J .
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Hall the engraver from 1789 to 1796 . For nine years
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part of his working-
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time was devoted to the study of
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drawing in the Royal
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Academy and to executing occasional engravings for the booksellers, whilst his leisure
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hours were employed in
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painting portraits in
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miniature . Having formed an intimacy with
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Sir
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David
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Wilkie,
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Raimbach in 1812 began to engrave some of that
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master's best pictures . At his
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death, in 1843, he held a
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gold
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medal awarded to him for his "
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Village Politicians " at the
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Paris
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Exhibition of 1814 . He was elected corresponding member of the
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Institute of
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France in 1835 .

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