James Parker (1750-1805)
Parker trained under James Basire (1730-1802) with William Blake (1757-1827); Blake and Parker later established a printshop. This venture failed, or the pair had a falling out (accounts differ) three years later.
Parker engraved numerous illustrative plates for, amongst others, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, 1792 and Falconer’s The Shipwreck, 1795 in addition to producing print work for the publisher John Boydell.
Parker was a founding member, and later President, of the short-lived Society of Engravers.
Collections
British Museum, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Redgrave, S (1970 reprint), A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, Kingsmead Reprints
Williamson, G C Ed. (1904), Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, George Bell and Sons
Parker trained under James Basire (1730-1802) with William Blake (1757-1827); Blake and Parker later established a printshop. This venture failed, or the pair had a falling out (accounts differ) three years later.
Parker engraved numerous illustrative plates for, amongst others, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, 1792 and Falconer’s The Shipwreck, 1795 in addition to producing print work for the publisher John Boydell.
Parker was a founding member, and later President, of the short-lived Society of Engravers.
Collections
British Museum, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Redgrave, S (1970 reprint), A Dictionary of Artists of the English School, Kingsmead Reprints
Williamson, G C Ed. (1904), Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, George Bell and Sons
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