John Simon (engraver)

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John Simon
Born
Jean Simon

c. 1675
Normandy, Kingdom of France
Died22 September 1751(1751-09-22) (aged 75–76)
London, Kingdom of Great Britain
Nationality
Known forMezzotint prints

Jean Simon, anglicized as John Simon (also spelled Simons;[a] c. 1675–1751) was an English mezzotint engraver and print publisher of French Huguenot birth, particularly known for his portraits. Notably associated with the German-born portrait painter Godfrey Kneller, Simon had an active career that spanned at least three and a half decades, and was regarded as one of the mezzotint medium's most prolific masters of his generation, along with the older contemporaneous engraver John Smith.[4]

  1. ^ Chelsum 1786, p. 88.
  2. ^ Walpole 1826, vol. 5, pp. 179, 183, 260; Walpole 1849, pp. 934, 936, 978.
  3. ^ Vertue 1765, p. 133; Walpole 1879, p. 463.
  4. ^ Vertue 1932, p. 11; Allison 1947, p. 441; Whinney & Millar 1957, p. 12; Wilder 1969, pp. 124, 128; Oliver 1973, p. 174; Saunders 1995, p. 45.


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