Joseph Brown (1809-1887) was an English engraver.

Life

Brown was born in 1809. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1833. He is known for his many

engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...

s using both stipple and line, working from paintings by the artists George Romney,

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, J. Robson,

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and John Hayter. Many of his works are portraits of titled aristocrats.

Works

Engravings
at the National Portrait Gallery, London (167 works)
Engravings
at the Science Museum, London (2 works, Ada Lovelace and William Herschel)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Joseph 1809 births 1887 deaths English engravers