Jacob Schnebbelie

Jacob Schnebbelie was born in Duke's Court, St Martin's Lane, London, on 30 August 1760.

His father, who was a native of Zürich and had served in the Dutch army at Bergen op Zoom, settled in England and became a confectioner in Rochester, Kent.

Through the influence of Lord Leicester, the president, he became draughtsman to the Society of Antiquaries of London; he drew most of the excellent views of ancient buildings in the second and third volumes of Vetusta Monumenta.

He made many drawings for Richard Gough's Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain and John Nichols' History of Leicestershire.

In 1791 Schnebbelie began publishing the Antiquaries' Museum, illustrating the ancient architecture, painting, and sculpture of Great Britain, a series of plates etched and aquatinted by himself; but he lived to complete only three parts.