Artist and author. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, he attended the Royal Academy as a pupil from 1770, his work winning the Academy's Gold and Silver medals. After serving his apprenticeship, he united his artistic expertise at engraving with his literary and antiquarian pretensions, from 1773 onward producing the books "The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England," and subsequently a "Complete View of the Manners and Customs, Arms, Habits, &c., of the Inhabitants of England;" a "Chronicle of England"; a "Dictionary of Engravers;" "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England;" "Queen Hoo Hall, a Romance," and several other works. He died at Hatton Garden, London.
Artist and author. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, he attended the Royal Academy as a pupil from 1770, his work winning the Academy's Gold and Silver medals. After serving his apprenticeship, he united his artistic expertise at engraving with his literary and antiquarian pretensions, from 1773 onward producing the books "The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England," and subsequently a "Complete View of the Manners and Customs, Arms, Habits, &c., of the Inhabitants of England;" a "Chronicle of England"; a "Dictionary of Engravers;" "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England;" "Queen Hoo Hall, a Romance," and several other works. He died at Hatton Garden, London.
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