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A mezzotint of bust of the Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist, James Watt carved by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds, engraver to the King, and published 25th June 1825, by the engraver in Bayswater, London. Samuel William Reynolds (1773–1835), was a mezzotint engraver and painter. Reynolds studied art in London under Charles Howard Hodges and John Raphael Smith. His first engraved portrait, a study of George IV when still Prince of Wales, is dated 1794. Reynolds began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1797 and continued to show his work there until 1827. His work was also greatly admired by the French and was exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1810. Reynolds was appointed portrait engraver to George IV in 1820.
Title
Mr James Watt (1736–1819)
Date
1825
Medium
mezzotint on paper
Measurements
H 44 x W 32 cm
Accession number
AE185.589
Work type
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