Robert Mitchell (engraver)
Robert Mitchell (19 May 1820 – 16 May 1873) was an English engraver, son of the engraver James Mitchell. He died at Bromley, Kent.[1]
Works
Mitchell engraved in mezzotint Tapageur, a fashionable Member of the Canine Society, after Sir Edwin Landseer, 1852, and The Parish Beauty and The Pastor's Pet, a pair after Alfred Rankley, 1853 and 1854. In the mixed style he engraved The Happy Mothers and The Startled Twins, a pair after Richard Ansdell, R.A., 1850, and Christ walking on the Sea, after Robert Scott Lauder, 1854. Several of his etched plates were completed in mezzotint by other engravers.[1]
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Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Mitchell, James (1791-1852)". Dictionary of National Biography. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Mitchell, James (1791-1852)". Dictionary of National Biography. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.