Thomas Macklin
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Thomas Macklin was a British printseller and picture dealer. He commissioned many noted painters and engravers for his "Poets Gallery" project and his illustrated folio Bible project.
"The Cottagers" (inspired by Thomson) painted by Reynolds and commissioned by Macklin in 1788, featuring his daughter, Maria, (left), and his wife, Hannah (right) and friend (Jane Potts (Edwin Landseer's mother), standing).
John Boydell
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John Boydell was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated an English tradition in the
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…illustrating famous English poems, which he would publish monthly as engravings between 1790 and 1795. He also held an annual exhibition in Pall Mall, like John Boydell and his Shakespeare Gallery. However, the war with France cut into his profits, as prints could not be traded across the channel, and his partner…
Portrait of John Boydell (1801), after William Beechey
Boydell's "View taken near the Store House at Deptford", later published in his own Collection of Views in England and Wales (1770)
St. Antony of Padua, preaching to the Birds. Wood engraving after Salvator Rosa
Boydell eventually made £15,000 from William Woollett's 1776 print of Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe (1770), much of it from exports.