Samuel Davenport (engraver)

[1] Davenport was born at Bedford, 10 December 1783: while he was still small, his father, an architect and surveyor, moved to London.

His earlier works were book illustrations after the designs of Henry Chawner Shenton, Henry Corbould, and others; but subsequently he engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works.

[2] His son, Samuel Thomas Davenport (born 1821), was also an engraver.

Examples of his work are the plates which he engraved for the Forget-Me-Not annual between 1828 and 1842, and which include:[2] All these plates were engraved on steel, which he was one of the earliest to adopt.

He also engraved a small plate of The Infant St. John the Baptist, after Murillo.