David Ogborne

Ogborne married and settled before 1740 in Chelmsford, Essex, where he is described in the register as a "painter" or "limner".

He gained a certain reputation by his portraits of local provincial monsters, such as a winged fish taken at Battlebridge, and a calf with six legs produced at Great Baddow; but he painted also a portrait of Edward Bright, a grocer of Maldon, Essex, who weighed 43½ stone.

[1] Ogborne is better known as the artist of "An exact Perspective View of Dunmow, late the Priory in the County of Essex.

With the Judges Procession on the Day Entrance attended by the High Sheriff and his Officers", published on 2 August 1762, engraved by T.

The piece was produced, with indifferent success, by a company of ladies and gentlemen at the Saracen's Head Inn, Chelmsford.