WILLIAM WYNNE

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• WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND (1738-1783)

RYLAND (1738-1783)  , English engraver, was born in London in July 1738, the son of an engraver and copper-plate printer . He studied under Ravenet, and in Paris under Boucher and J . P. le Bas . After spending five years on the continent he returned to England, and having engraved portraits of George III. and Lord Bute after Ramsay, and a portrait of Queen Charlotte and the Princess Royal after Francis Cotes, R.A., he was appointed engraver to the king . In 1766 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and he exhibited with them and in the Royal Academy . In his later life Ryland abandoned line-engraving, and introduced " chalk-engraving," in which the line is composed of stippled dots, and in which he transcribed Mortimer's " King John Signing Magna Charta," and copied the drawings of the old masters and the works of Angelica Kauffman . In consequence of his extravagant habits his affairs became involved; he was convicted of forging bills upon the East India Company, and, after attempting to commit suicide, was executed at Tyburn on the 29th of August 1783 .