J. Clement Danes

About The Artist: John Boydell

BOYDELL, JOHN (1719-1804), English engraver, print publisher and lord mayor of London, was born at Dorrington. At the age of 21 he came to London and was apprenticed for seven years to an engraver. In 1746 he published a volume of views in England and Wales and started in business as a print-seller. He was sheriff in 1785, and in 1796 became lord mayor of London. Boydell was born in Dorrington, Shropshire, to Josiah and Mary Boydell (née...