Samuel Freeman

Training under Francesco Bartolozzi is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is stipple engraving, engraving and portrait. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Samuel Freeman is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Portrait Gallery, National Library of Wales and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

• Illustration — Family grave of Samuel Freeman in Highgate Cemetery • Illustration — Samuel Freeman after Anthony van Dyck. Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral, 1832 Freeman worked chiefly in stipple, and is principally known as an engraver of portraits. Among these were: • Samuel Johnson, after Francesco Bartolozzi; • Garrick, and Henry Tresham, R.A., after Sir Joshua Reynolds; • Robert Ker Porter, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, after J. Wright (Freeman's original drawing from the portrait of Miss Landon is in the print room at the British Museum); • Thomas Campbell, after Lawrence; • Charles Elmé Francatelli the cook, after Auguste Hervieu • Queen Victoria, after Miss Costello, and others. He engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations to Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Northern Gallery etc. For Tresham's British Gallery (1815) Freeman engraved the Stafford Gallery replica of Raphael's La vierge au diadème. He also engraved some of the plates for Jones's National Gallery, and numerous portraits for Fisher's National Portrait Gallery. For James Dallaway's edition of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting he engraved The Marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou from an ancient painting. He is buried in a family grave (plot no.7930) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.