biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1735–99)
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| biography:
| Modeller and gem engraver, born in Pollokshaws, Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. Apprenticed to a stone mason, he studied art at Foulis Academy in Glasgow. In 1763 he went to Dublin as a laboratory assistant to a physician, Henry Quin, with whom he developed a special composition for making portrait medallions. In London from 1766, he made reproductions of some of the most famous gems (including Catherine the Great's collection at the Hermitage, Leningrad), cameo portraits of his eminent contemporaries, and the plaster reproductions of the Portland Vase. Collections are in the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery, Scotland. |
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