Thomas Cheesman (engraver)

Thomas Cheesman (c. 1777)
attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi

Thomas Cheesman (1760–1834) was a British engraver who worked in London.^[1] He was a student of the Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi, who was working in London at the time.^[2]

Works

In 1796, John Trumbull, who had brought a small version of his painting, General George Washington at Trenton, to London in 1794, supervised Cheesman in the engraving George Washington. It was noted by historian Justin Winsor as the best engraving of Trumbull's paintings and was used as the basis for several other engravings.^[3][4][5]

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  George Washington, engraving after General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, 1796
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  Thomas Gilliland, after Samuel De Wilde, 1807
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  The Lady's Last Stake, engraving after William Hogarth, 1825

References

1. "Thomas Cheesman". National Portrait Gallery, London.
2. Scharf, George (1888). "Thomas Cheesman". Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &c. in the National Portrait Gallery. National Portrait Gallery, London. p. 104.
3. Winsor, Justin (1888). "The Portraits of Washington". Narrative and Critical History of America. Vol. 7. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. pp. 568–9.
4. Cheesman, Thomas. "George Washington". Yale University Art Gallery.
5. Sizer, Theodore (1950). The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Artist of the American Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 63.

External links

• "Cheesman, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.