Richard Josey

Richard Josey (4 October 1840 – 6 February 1906) was a prominent mezzotint engraver in Victorian London.

At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to Thomas William Knight, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked in the studio of the Chevalier Ballin.

His first commission was reportedly given to him by the firm of Henry Graves and Co., for whom he continued to work for many years.

Josey engraved a large number of portraits, notably Thomas Carlyle, and Whistler's Mother, after James McNeill Whistler; the Earl of Shaftesbury, after John Everett Millais; Cardinal Manning, after Edwin Long; David Garrick, after Gainsborough; Lord Roberts after Walter William Ouless; and Lord Wolsely and several other portraits after Frank Holl.

[1] Among his more successful religious subjects were "The Finding of Moses," after Frederick Goodall; "Helen on the Walls of Troy," after Lord Leighton; "Preparing for Confirmation," after Burgess; "Hope Nursing Love," and "Crossing the Ford," after Sir Joshua Reynolds; "Gethsemane," after John Spreckley Cuthbert; "Calvary," after Joseph Noel Paton; and "Pity and Love are Akin," after Frank Miles.