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Charles Spooner (died 5 December 1767
London
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) was an Irish mezzotinter, who worked in London towards the end of his life.
Life
He was born in County Wexford, and became a pupil of John Brooks. He came to London before 1756. There he mainly worked making copies of plates by other engravers, forRobert Sayer
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and Carington Bowles, the printsellers.
Spooner died in London on 5 December 1767, his life being shortened by drink, and was buried beside his friend James Macardell
James MacArdell (1729?–1765) was an Irish mezzotinter.
Life
He was born in Cow Lane (later Greek Street), Dublin, around 1729. He learnt mezzotint-engraving from John Brooks. When Brooks moved to London in 1746, MacArdell and other pupils foll ...
, in Hampstead churchyard.
Works
In Dublin Spooner executed portraits ofWilliam Hogarth
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(1749), Anthony Malone
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, Samuel Madden
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(1752), and Thomas Prior
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(1752). Later he engraved some further portraits, some from his own drawings, as well as genre subjects after Rembrandt
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References
* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Spooner, Charles Year of birth missing 1767 deaths 18th-century engravers Irish engravers People from County Wexford