John Goldar (1729–1795) was an English engraver.

Life

Born at London in 1738, Goldar resided in Charlotte Street,

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. He made a couple of forays into print publishing on his own account (of John Dixon after William Lawrenson, and much later of naval prints and after Henry Richter), but mostly worked for the book trade. On 16 August 1795 Goldar died suddenly of apoplexy, while walking with his daughter through Hyde Park, London.

Works

Goldar is best known for his engravings of the pictures painted by John Collet, in imitation of William Hogarth. Four of these, published by

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in 1782, represent a series entitled "Modern Love", and among others were ''The Recruiting Sergeant'', ''The Female Bruisers'', ''The Sacrifice'', ''The Country Choristers'', and ''The Refusal''. Similar subject matter was in his engravings after Philip Dawe, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and

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. Goldar also engraved portraits, including those of the Rev. William Jay, James Lackington the bookseller,

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the surgeon, and others. In 1771 he exhibited an unfinished proof of an engraving after John Hamilton Mortimer at the exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists. As an illustrator, Goldar's work included a ''History of England'' (1789) for John Harrison. This was based, at some distance, on that by

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. He also had some plates in ''The New English Theatre'' (1777) published by Lowndes.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldar, John 1729 births 1795 deaths English engravers Artists from Oxford