Henry Hoppner Meyer

Henry Meyer RBA (12 June 1780 – 28 May 1847)[1] was an English portrait painter, more known as a stipple and mezzotint engraver.

His son, Bernard Francis Hoppner Meyer (20 April 1811 – 3 June 1888) was also an artist.

[3] A prominent early 19th-century artist, Henry Meyer was admitted as a pupil to Christ's Hospital, London in 1791 where he studied under Benjamin Green.

On 25 August 1794 he was apprenticed to Benjamin Smith for seven years and ultimately trained in engraving techniques at the Royal Academy Schools under Francesco Bartolozzi.

He was a founding member of the Society of British Artists, exhibiting many of his works with this association between 1824 and 1830, and acting as its president in 1828/9.