Joseph Haynes (painter)

[1] He came to London early in life, studied under John Hamilton Mortimer, and on the death of that artist in 1779 was for some time engaged in producing etchings from about a dozen of his works, including Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons and Robbers and Banditti.

[1] In 1784, he etched four pictures by William Hogarth: The Staymaker, Debates on Palmistry, and portraits of James Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemount, and Henry Fox, Lord Holland.

In the case of the portraits, the originals were owned by the printmaker Samuel Ireland, a friend of Mortimer, who commissioned the etchings.

[1] Haynes worked in the free, graphic style of Mortimer, sometimes on an unusually grand scale for pure etching.

[1] His paintings are few, and are seldom met with, but his etchings and engravings, which in the estimation of Lionel Cust have considerable merit, are numerous.