page_title: John Dixon (engraver)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Dixon (engraver) / Works
context_page_description: John Dixon was an Irish mezzotint engraver.
context_section_description: Dixon's portraits of William Carmichael after Ennis, and of Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, after Robert Hunter, are thought to have been engraved before he left Ireland. Soon after his arrival in London he became known for his full-length portrait of David Garrick in the character of "Richard III" in the Shakespeare play, after Nathaniel Dance-Holland.
  Forty plates by Dixon were described by John Chaloner Smith in British Mezzotinto Portraits. The major engravings are after the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and include:
  Full-length portraits of Mary, duchess of Ancaster, and Mrs. Blake as "Juno";
  William, duke of Leinster;
  Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke,
  Elizabeth, countess of Pembroke, and her son;
  The Misses Crewe,
  Charles Townshend, chancellor of the exchequer;
  William Robertson, D.D.;
  Nelly O'Brien; and
  Miss Davidson.
  Besides these portraits, Dixon engraved:
  A group of David Garrick as "Abel Drugger" in The Alchemist, with William Burton and John Palmer as "Subtle" and "Face", after Zoffany;
  A full-length of Garrick alone, from the same picture;
  A half-length of Garrick, after Thomas Hudson;
  William, Earl of Ancrum, full-length, after Gilpin and Cosway;
  Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, and Joshua Kirby, after Thomas Gainsborough;
  Rev. James Hervey, after J. Williams;
  Sir William Browne, M.D., after Hudson;
  "Betty", who sold fruit near the Royal Exchange, after Peter Falconet; and
  William Beckford, both full-length and three-quarter reversed, after a drawing by himself.
  Others works were:
  "The Frame Maker", after Rembrandt;
  "The Flute Player", after Frans Hals; and
  "The Arrest" and "The Oracle", after his own designs.
caption: David Garrick as Richard III, 1772 engraving by John Dixon
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