page_title: Thomas Major
section_title: In London
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Major / In London
caption_attribution_description: An alchemist using bellows in his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger. Iconographic Collections Keywords: David Teniers; Thomas Major
context_page_description: Thomas Major was an English engraver. His early career was in Paris. In England, he became engraver to Frederick, Prince of Wales; he was the first engraver recognized by the Royal Academy of Arts, and was chief seal engraver to the King.
context_section_description: He returned to England in 1748, and sold to Arthur Pond some prints he had brought from Paris. He acted as agent for Le Bas, importing prints. He married Dorothy, and they had sixteen children between 1752 and 1771.
  Major engraved a number of plates after Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Teniers, Wouwerman, Claude Lorrain, and other masters; and produced many more of the same character which he published himself in St Martin's Lane.
caption: The Chymist (1750) by Thomas Major, after David Teniers the Younger.
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