Sir David Wilkie, R.A.
John Henry Robinson after Sir William Beechey
published 1846
Medium
etching with stipple
Dimensions
sheet: 28.7 × 22.3 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1768
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
John Henry Robinson after Sir William Beechey
**John Henry Robinson (1796–1871)** was a leading English line and stipple engraver of the nineteenth century, renowned for his meticulous reproductions of portraits and historical scenes by major British and Old Master painters. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, and raised in Staffordshire, he began his training at age eighteen as a pupil of the established engraver James Heath, with whom he studied fo...