page_title: John Faber Jr.
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Faber Jr. / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: A trompe l'oeil with a portrait of Mrs. John Faber the younger, the engraver's wife, after Thomas Hudson
context_page_description: John Faber Jr. was a Dutch portrait engraver active in London.
context_section_description: Faber was born in The Hague, the son of the artist John Faber Senior, and learned mezzotint and drawing from his father after the family's move to London. He then enrolled at the St. Martin's Lane Academy.
  In later life Faber resided at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square, London, where he died of "gout" on 2 May 1756. From the inscription on a masonic portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales, it appears that Faber was a Freemason himself.  According to Horace Walpole, his widow, of whom there is an engraving by Faber from a portrait by Thomas Hudson, remarried a lawyer of the name of Smith.
caption: A painted trompe l'oeil with a portrait of Mrs Faber (after Thomas Hudson)
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