John Boydell
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John Boydell was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated an English tradition in the art form.
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Portrait of John Boydell (1801), after William Beechey
Boydell's "View taken near the Store House at Deptford", later published in his own Collection of Views in England and Wales (1770)
St. Antony of Padua, preaching to the Birds. Wood engraving after Salvator Rosa![Boydell eventually made £15,000 from William Woollett's 1776 print of Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe (1770), much of it from exports.[13]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/DeathofWolfe.jpg/1280px-DeathofWolfe.jpg)
Boydell eventually made £15,000 from William Woollett's 1776 print of Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe (1770), much of it from exports.[13]
A Roman Monument at Igel in the Dutchy of Luxemburgh, coloured engraving published by John Boydell, London (1783) from a painting by Edward Rooker (1712?-1774) after William Pars (1742-1782)
The Winter's Tale, Act II, scene 3, from a painting by John Opie commissioned and prepared for engraving by the Shakespeare Gallery.
James Gillray, passed over for the Shakespeare Gallery engravings, responded with Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice.
John Boydell shown in 1791 during his year as Lord Mayor of LondonAwards 1
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John Boydell was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated an English tradition in the art form. A former engraver himself, Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a result his business prospered.
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