Peter Lightfoot (1805-1885)
Little is known about the life and work of Peter Lightfoot.
Mackenzie provides the following information: ‘Line and stipple engraver of portraits and historical and sentimental subjects after his contemporaries and British 18th century and Old Master painters. He worked in London.’
The engraver Thomas Vernon (c.1824-1872) is known to have been one of Lightfoot’s pupils.
Collections
British Museum, London
Metropolitan Museum, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Little is known about the life and work of Peter Lightfoot.
Mackenzie provides the following information: ‘Line and stipple engraver of portraits and historical and sentimental subjects after his contemporaries and British 18th century and Old Master painters. He worked in London.’
The engraver Thomas Vernon (c.1824-1872) is known to have been one of Lightfoot’s pupils.
Collections
British Museum, London
Metropolitan Museum, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Royal Academy, London
Royal Collection Trust
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Literature
Mackenzie, I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
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