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cartographer and painter. Brother of engraver Johann Gottlieb Facius. The Facius brothers were born in Regensburg (Germany) and received engraving training in Brussels. By 1776, their works were already well known and they moved to London at the invitation of John Boydell, with whom they worked for many years.

Born in Holland, John Faber came to London in around 1687 and began engraving portraits shortly thereafter. By 1707, he had established a shop near the Savoy in the Strand where he printed and published his own work. Among his more famous mezzotints are portraits of the founders of both Oxford and Cambridge, a set of the heads of the twelve Caesars and twenty-one portraits of the Reformers. Faber's work is noteworthy because he was one of the few mezzotint engravers who often both designed and engraved his plates. His son, John Faber, also became a portrait engraver.

London line and mezzotint engraver, exhibited at the RA from 1864 to 1905.

First Master of Magdalene, 1544-1546.

Dean of Bangor Cathedral from 1534. At the time he was made Master he also held two rectories of Llaneingan and Aber in Carnarvonshire and the vicarage of Terrnington St John in Norfolk to which he had been presented by the Bishop of Ely in 1541. Had no connections with Cambridge prior to being made Master.

Father of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.

Engraver, mainly in line.

Headmaster at Eton College, mountaineer, and climbing friend of George Mallory.

Educated at Merton College, Oxford, and Harvard University. Poet and critic. Director of Faber & Faber. Elected Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 1939. Nobel Laureate, 1948. He bequeathed to the College the manuscripts of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.

Line, stipple and mezzotint engraver who worked in London.

An Irish mezzotint engraver. Egan was born in County Roscommon. He was employed by Samuel William Reynolds, the mezzotint engraver, at first as little more than an errand-boy, but later in laying his mezzotint grounds. Egan set up a business of ground-laying for engravers, while he studied in order to become an engraver himself. Becoming consumptive, he had eight years' struggle with declining health; and died at Pentonville, 2 October 1842, aged 43. Egan, who married young, left a family, for whom a subscription was raised by his friends. His last plate was 'English Hospitality in the Olden Time,' after George Cattermole. Among his other engravings were 'Love's Reverie,' after John Rogers Herbert, 'Abbot Boniface,' after Gilbert Stuart Newton, 'The Morning after the Wreck,' after Charles Bentley, 'The Study,' after E. Stone, 'The Mourner,' after J. M. Moore, 'The Young Wife,' 'The Citation of Wycliffe,' 'The Tribunal of the Inquisition,' and other pictures after S. J. E. Jones, and a portrait of John Lodge, librarian at Cambridge, after Walmisley.

Painter. Born in Wales, his portrait of Seamus Heaney at the National Portrait Gallery led to a one-man show of contemporary poets at the Gallery in 1990. Awarded the BP Portrait Award in 1994 with Portrait of an Artist's Model (Marguerite Kelsey).

French-born portrait artist who worked in England, Scotland and the United States in the 19th century. He specialised in silhouette portraits. Born in Dunkerque, he left France in 1814, and established himself in London, where he began his career making portraits from hair. In 1825, he began work as a silhouette portraitist, taking full-length likenesses in profile by cutting out black paper with scissors. Edouart spent fifteen years touring England and in 1829 arrived in Edinburgh. He remained there for three years, during which time he produced some 5,000 likenesses. Edouart travelled in the United States in about 1839–49, visiting New York, Boston, and other locales. He later returned to France, where he worked on smaller silhouettes. They included one of the most notable writer of this period, Victor Hugo

Irish novelist and educationist.

Eden was born in Newington Green in 1812. He enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools in 1828 and between 1837 and 1881 his work was regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy.
He is best known for his portraits, which included many of well-known people. The National Portrait Gallery in London holds a drawing of him by Walker Hodgson.
Among the subjects of his portraits were the historian Lord Macaulay, Bishop Charles James Blomfield, Archbishop Sumner, the essayist and fashionable cleric Sydney Smith, the sculptor Francis Leggatt Chantrey and Peter Mark Roget the compiler of the original thesaurus. He died in 1901 at Shalford near Guildford.

American painter and engraver. His early work was mainly as an engraver and he established his reputation with his print after John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence and with portraits of eminent contemporaries. In the 1830s he turned increasingly to painting.

Italian sculptor whose success was a product of his lifelike and original interpretation of form when Italian sculpture was deteriorating into a mannered imitation of the works of Antonio Canova. Dupré was the son of a carver in wood. Tuscan. He had a museum in Fiesole, but this is now closed.