Charles Spooner ( 1729 - 5 December 1767) was an Irish mezzotinter, who worked in

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towards the end of his life.

Life

He was born in

County Wexford County Wexford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was ba ...

, and became a pupil of John Brooks. He came to London before 1756. There he mainly worked making copies of plates by other engravers, for

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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

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, in

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churchyard.

Works

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, Spooner painted portraits of

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(1749),

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, Samuel Madden (1752), and Thomas Prior (1752). Later he engraved some further portraits, some from his own drawings, as well as genre subjects after

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, Schalken,

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, and others. Sir William Johnson

References

* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Spooner, Charles Year of birth missing 1767 deaths 18th-century Irish engravers People from County Wexford