James Neagle

Neagle went to the Royal Academy Schools in 1786. He had many commissions from the publishing firm of Cadell & Davies. In 1801, in a civil action brought by Jean Marie Delattre the engraver against John Singleton Copley, over a plate, Neagle was a witness for the plaintiff. Towards the end of his life (after 1816) he emigrated to America, where he died not long afterwards in 1822.

• Illustration — The death of William Rufus, engraving by James Neagle from Robert Bowyer's History of England Neagle's work included plates for: • John Boydell's and other editions of Shakespeare, including plates after Francis Wheatley; • John Sharpe's and Charles Cooke's series of English Classics; • Edward Forster's Arabian Nights, 1802; • Gil Blas, 1809, translated by Benjamin Heath Malkin; • Ancient Terra-Cottas in the British Museum, 1810, by Taylor Combe; and • James Cavanah Murphy's Arabian Antiquities of Spain, 1816. A major work was The Royal Procession in St. Paul's on St. George's Day, 1789, from a drawing by Edward Dayes.

Neagle had a son, John B. Neagle (died 1866), who practised as an engraver in Philadelphia.