Marcellus Laroon

According to brief biographies by Horace Walpole and Bainbrigg Buckeridge he was taught by one "La Zoon"[2][3] before studying under one of the Flessiers, a family of Dutch painters and framemakers working in London in the mid-17th century.

He also painted small pictures, on humorous or free subjects, in the style of Egbert van Heemskerk, some of which were engraved in mezzotint by Isaac Beckett and John Smith.

[3] Laroon is best known for the drawings he made of The Cryes of London,[1] which were engraved by John Savage,[6] and published by Pierce Tempest.

He painted portraits of Queen Mary (engraved in mezzotint by Robert Williams), Caius Gabriel Cibber the sculptor, and others.

[1] He married the daughter of Jeremiah Keene, a builder, of Little Sutton, near Chiswick, by whom he had a large family, including three sons, who were brought up in his profession.