John Landseer

He started a series Views of the Isle of Wight after pictures by Ibbetson and Turner, but publication was halted when he had only executed three plates.

His protests, which included petitioning the Prince Regent, proved ineffective, however and the academy's policy was not changed until after his death.

"[9] For a while he pursued an interest in archaeology, becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and publishing two books on Babylonian antiquities, before returning to engraving.

In 1826 he was appointed Engraver to the King, and in 1831 published a plate of Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller after a picture painted by his son Edwin eleven years earlier, at the age of eighteen.

She moved in artistic circles, and had modelled for a reaper in The Gleaners, painted for Macklin by Sir Joshua Reynolds .

[15] They had fourteen children: seven survived to reach adolescence,[16] and four of them Thomas, Edwin, Charles and Jessica, became notable in the art world.