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Last Name Pollard

Given Name Robert

alt. Names R. P. ;

Marriage Ann Iley of Newcastle in 1778

Children painter James Pollard (1792-1867), noted for his mail coach, fox hunting, and equine scenes

Year born 1755 in Newcastle-on-Tyne

Year died 1838

Place of death London

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education apprentice to a watch-smith, then pupil of painter Richard Wilson at the Royal Academy of Arts

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for

Patronage 1788 fellow & 1789-91 director of the Incorporated Society of Artists; Royal Academy of Arts in London

Collaborators artist John Swertner (1746-1813) ; artist Nicholas Pocock ; artist Richard Cosway ; artist Sawrey Gilpin ; artist Thomas Stothard ;artist Francis Wheatley ; aquatint engraver ->Francis Jukes ;

Techniques technical and topographical aquatint and drawing ; landscape and marine painting

Sample(s) www.allposters.com/-sp/View-of-Hanover-Square-Engraved-by-Robert-Pollard-1755-1838-and-Francis-Jukes-1747-1812-1787-Posters_i9036042_.htm

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pollard_%28engraver%29

Published sources Freeman Marius O'Donoghue ‎in DNB 46 1896 ; Klingender 1968/74: 252 & fig. 20 ;

other English aquatinter, draftsman, and landscape and marine painter, engraver for the printseller John Harris, and established himself in a studio in Spa Fields, London; in business for many years in Islington. In 1810 he sold up, but then in Holloway Place ran a printselling business; died in poverty.

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