- Abraham Raimbach
Abraham Raimbach (
February 16 ,1776 -January 17 ,1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.He was born in
Cecil Court in the West End ofLondon [ Weinreb, Ben & Hibbert, Christopher (1983): "The London Encyclopaedia," p. 129. ] . Educated at Archbishop Tenison's Library School, he was apprenticed toJ. Hall the engraver from 1789 to 1796. For nine years, part of his working-time was devoted to the study of drawing in theRoyal Academy and to carrying out occasional engravings for thebookseller s, whilst his leisure hours were employed in painting portraits in miniature. Having formed an intimacy with Sir David Wilkie, Raimbach in 1812 began to engrave some of Wilkie's best pictures. At his death, he held a gold medal awarded for his "Village Politicians" at the Paris Exhibition of 1814. He was elected corresponding member of theInstitut de France in 1835.References
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