Robert Pollard (engraver)

For a time he practised as a landscape and marine painter, producing such works as "The Departure", based on the ship wreck of the 84th Regiment of Foot (1780).

In 1810 he sold up, but then in Holloway Place ran a printselling business, for which his son James supplied many of the designs.

[6] In October 1836, as the last surviving member, Pollard gave the charter, books, and papers of the Incorporated Society to the Royal Academy.

[7] For a decade in London, Pollard produced a large number of plates, executed in his own mixed style, composed of line engraving, etching, and aquatint.

Some were from his own designs: Lieutenant Moody rescuing a Prisoner, 1785, Adventure of Lady Harriet Ackland, 1784, Edwin and Angelina, 1785, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and eight plates of shipping.