Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery, Vol. 2

Painter. After a successful early career he removed to Dublin, where his portraits and other paintings were very popular. He returned to London about 1784, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1791. His scenes from daily or rustic life, such as 'the Cries of London, ' became very popular through engravings.

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