Thomas Lord Busby

Thomas Lord Busby (baptized 10 November 1782, buried 5 May 1838), sometimes spelt Busbey, was an English portrait artist, etcher, and engraver.

[5] On his Costume of the Lower Orders of London (1819),[6] a critic has commented Busby’s Americans give it folkloric pathomorphic and philosophical twists.

[7]His Costumes of the Lower Orders in Paris, which had in it twenty-nine coloured etchings, appeared in 1820,[8] and The Cries of London: Drawn from Life in 1823.

[7] In 1824, the first issue of Busby’s Civil and Military Costume of the City of London was published and was dedicated by permission to King George IV.

[9] Busby’s portrait of the one-legged black busker Billy Waters was the inspiration of many Derby porcelain and Staffordshire pottery figures.