Life

He was born, according to his own account, at Alcester

Alcester

Alcester is an old market town of Roman origin at the junction of the River Alne and River Arrow in Warwickshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Stratford-upon-Avon, and 8 miles south of Redditch, close to the Worcestershire border...

, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...

, though his name does not appear in the parish register

Parish register

A parish register is a handwritten volume, normally kept in a parish church or deposited within a county record office or alternative archive repository, in which details of baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded.-History:...

. He was a pupil of Robert Thew, and became known as an engraver of portraits, in the stipple and chalk manner. He was a supporter of the Artists' Annuity Fund, in the establishment of which, in 1810, he took a leading part.

He died on 23 August 1841, leaving a widow and five children. He was buried in Kensal Green

Kensal Green

Kensal Green, also referred to as Kensal Rise is an area of London, England. It is located on the southern edge of the London Borough of Brent and borders the City of Westminster to the East and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the South....

 cemetery, where a stone was erected to his memory by the members of the Artists' Fund.

Works

He worked mainly for the publishers of expensively illustrated books and serials, such as the ‘British Gallery of Portraits,’ 1809–17; ‘Ancient Marbles in the British Museum,’ 1814, etc.; Henry Tresham

Henry Tresham

Henry Tresham was an Irish-born historical painter active in London, England, in the late 18th century.Tresham received his first art instruction from W. Ennis, a pupil of Robert West at the Dublin Art School...

 and William Young Ottley

William Young Ottley

William Young Ottley was an English collector of and writer on art, amateur artist, and keeper of prints at the British Museum. He was an early English enthusiast for 14th- and 15th-century Italian art, or the "Italian Primitives" as they were then often called.-Life:He was born near Thatcham,...

's ‘British Gallery,’ 1818; Edmund Lodge

Edmund Lodge

Sir Edmund Lodge, KH , herald, was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a painstaking supplier of short, accurate biographies.-Life and career:...

's ‘Portraits of Illustrious Persons,’ 1821–34; Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Thomas Frognall Dibdin , English bibliographer, born at Calcutta, was the son of Thomas Dibdin, the sailor brother of Charles Dibdin....

's ‘Ædes Althorpianæ,’ 1822; William Jerdan

William Jerdan

William Jerdan , Scottish journalist, was born at Kelso, Scotland.During the years between 1799 and 1806, he spent short periods in a country lawyer's office, a London West India merchant's counting house, an Edinburgh solicitor's chambers, and held the position of surgeon's mate on board H.M...

's ‘National Portrait Gallery,’ 1830–4; and Anna Jameson's ‘Beauties of the Court of Charles II,’ 1833. His few individual plates included:

• ‘Telemachus and Mentor discovered by Calypso,’ after Richard Westall
  Richard Westall
  Richard Westall was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary events, best-known for his portraits of Byron. He was also Queen Victoria's drawing master.-Life and works:...
  
  , 1810;
• portrait of Rev. Richard Broomhead, after J. Allen, 1818;
• portrait of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
  Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
  Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , English statesman and politician, was created the first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh on 22 April 1672 for his suggestion that the King supply himself with money by stopping, for one year, all payments out of the Exchequer.He was born in Ugbrooke,...
  
  , after Samuel Cooper
  Samuel Cooper
  Samuel Cooper was an English miniature painter, and younger brother of Alexander Cooper.He is believed to have been born in London, and was a nephew of John Hoskins, the miniature painter, by whom he was educated. He lived in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and frequented the Covent Garden...
  
  , 1819;
• ‘Miranda,’ after William Hilton
  William Hilton
  William Hilton , was an English portrait and history painter.-Life and work:Hilton was born in Lincoln, the son of a portrait-painter; he may be known as "William Hilton the Younger"...
  
  , 1828; and
• portrait of Edward Daniel Clarke
  Edward Daniel Clarke
  Edward Daniel Clarke was an English naturalist, mineralogist and traveller.-Life:Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Tonbridge....
  
  , after John Opie
  John Opie
  John Opie was an English historical and portrait painter. He painted many great men and women of his day, most notably in the artistic and literary professions.-Life and work:...
  
  , 1828.

He also engraved a set of imitations of West's studies of heads for his picture of ‘Christ Rejected.’

A portrait of Scriven, painted by Andrew Morton, was engraved by Benjamin Phelps Gibbon as an illustration to John Pye's ‘Patronage of British Art.’