William Thomas Fry
William Thomas Fry (1789–1843) was a British engraver. He occasionally exhibited his engravings at the Suffolk Street exhibition.
Also recorded as W. T. Fry
William Thomas Fry
William Thomas Fry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Died
- 1843. · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker and engraver.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Languages
- English.
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William Thomas Fry (1789–1843) was a British engraver. He occasionally exhibited his engravings at the Suffolk Street exhibition.
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The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is stipple engraving, aquatint and lithography. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by William Thomas Fry is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Portrait Gallery, National Library of Wales and Yale Center for British Art.
• Illustration — William Babington, by William Thomas Fry Fry worked chiefly in stipple. He engraved four portraits for Fisher, Son, & Co.'s National Portrait Gallery: • Princess Charlotte, and the Earl of Liverpool, after Sir T. Lawrence; • Admiral Earl Howe, after Gainsborough Dupont; and • the Rev. Samuel Lee, after Richard Evans. He also engraved portraits, after J. Jackson, R.A., including Robert Hills, the animal painter, John Scott the engraver, and others. For Jones's National Gallery he executed eleven engravings.
John Wesley. Stipple engraving by W. T. Fry after J. Renton., by William Thomas Fry
William Thomas Fry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
Robert Owen within a frame decorated with tools used for gardening and writing. Engraving after W.T. Fry., by William Thomas Fry
William Thomas Fry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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1789
William Thomas Fry born at London.
1843
William Thomas Fry died at London.
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