Burnet Reading

Burnet Reading bySamuel De Wilde,1798.

Burnet Reading(1749–1838) was an English engraver anddraughtsman.

Biography

Reading was a native ofColchester,and practised in London. He worked entirely for the booksellers, engraving chiefly portraits of contemporary celebrities, many of which appeared inBell's "British Theatre," 1776–86, and the "European Magazine,"1783–93. Reading engraved a set of six portraits of members of theRoyal Academy,from drawings byPeter Falconetand another of members of theAmerican Congress,1783; also some of the plates toBoydell's "Shakespeare," and a few fancy subjects, such as "Laviniaand her Mother, "afterW. Bigg,and "Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther," from his own design. In 1820 a set of twelve etchings by Reading, from drawings byMortimer,of "Characters to illustrate Shakespeare," was published by T. and H. Rodd; and many of the plates in that firm's "Collection of Portraits to illustrateGranger's “History of England,” "1820 and 1822, were engraved by him. He was employed as drawing and riding master by theEarl of Pomfretat Windsor. A portrait of Reading was etched bySamuel De Wildein 1798.

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References

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:O'Donoghue, Freeman Marius(1896). "Reading, Burnet".InLee, Sidney(ed.).Dictionary of National Biography.Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

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