John Cheney (engraver)

Portrait of John Cheney

John Cheney (1801-1885) was an engraver in Boston, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia in the 19th century.[1][2][3] He travelled in Europe in the 1830s. His brothers were Ward Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney, who married the writer, Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney.[4] Examples of Cheney's work are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[5] In 1833, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.

  1. ^ Boston Directory. 1848, 1852
  2. ^ Sally Pierce (1997), Early American Lithography, Boston, Mass: Boston Athenaeum, ISBN 0-934552-64-9, OCLC 37048588, OL 708373M, 0934552649
  3. ^ "John Cheney's Work." The New York Times, August 23, 1885
  4. ^ Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney. Memoir of Seth W. Cheney, artist. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881
  5. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collections. Retrieved 2011-12-21