Edward Scriven

On the Prince of Wales' succession to the throne in 1820 as George IV Scriven was appointed Historical Engraver to the King.

[1] He was a man of great active benevolence among the members of his profession and a leading proponent and founder of the Artists' Annuity Fund in 1810.

[2][3] He died on 23 August 1841 at his home at 46 Clarendon Square, Somers Town, London, leaving a widow and five children.

His few individual plates included: He also engraved a set of Benjamin West's studies of heads for his picture of Christ Rejected.

[3] A portrait of Scriven, painted by Andrew Morton, was engraved by Benjamin Phelps Gibbon as an illustration to John Pye's Patronage of British Art.