He carried on business at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, London, where his own works were published.
He is now known for his pupils: John Browne, Anthony Walker and William Woollett.
His mezzotint plates included portraits of Lavinia Fenton, after John Ellys; George III, after Joseph Highmore; Chief Baron Parker; and John Wesley.
He engraved in line a set of ten views of Hampton Court and Kensington Palace, after Anthony Highmore, and some of Fontainebleau and Versailles, after Jean-Baptiste Rigaud [fr].
Some of the plates in John Ball's translation of 1729 Antiquities of Constantinople by Pierre Gilles are by him.