Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie

She asked Nichols to consider employing her son "if you think him Capable of copying any little matter for the Mag[azine]". The adult Schnebbelie occasionally exhibited works at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1803 and 1821. Engravings based on his drawings were widely published; he made the drawings for many of the plates in Robert Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata (1808–1825), David Hughson's Description of London and the Gentleman's Magazine, among others. Schnebbelie was described posthumously by John Bowyer Nichols as being "of rather weak intellect, and very capricious in the employment of his time." The death of his mother was said to have affected him to the point that he was "scarcely able to take care of himself." He died in a state of acute poverty in Camden Town in 1847. Views of Schnebbelie's artistic merit vary; he has been described by the Canadian art historian Robert R. Wark as "gifted", and by Redgrave as "a good draftsman", though Martin Hardie is less generous, describing both Schnebbelies as "painstaking but niggling in their draughtsmanship" and their work as "not often ris[ing] above a level of good hack work." A number of his works are on display as part of the collections of the Museum of London, the City of London Corporation's Guildhall Art Gallery and the Huntington Museum of Art, among other institutions.

• Name — Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie • Born — 16 September 1781 • Birthplace — Canterbury • Died — 1847 • Place of death — Camden • Occupation — Artist • Parents — Jacob Schnebbelie, Caroline Schnebbelie