Thomas Burke (artist)

Born in Dublin in 1749,[1] Burke first trained in the Dublin Society's Schools under Robert West, moving in 1770 to London where he studied mezzotint under John Dixon.

[3] He adopted the chalk method popularised by Bartolozzi, continuing to use both styles.

[1] Burke preferred to work for publishers and seldom issued prints himself.

[4] The first engraving he did after Kauffman was Queen Charlotte Raising the Genius of the Fine Arts (1772).

[3]Burke's best known work was a popular print after Fuseli, The Nightmare (1783),[2] showing an incubus sitting on a sleeping woman.