page_title: Samuel Dixon (artist)
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Dixon (artist)
caption_attribution_description: English: embossed bird picture attributed to Samuel Dixon
context_page_description: Samuel Dixon was an Irish artist, known for his water colour paintings and his depictions of flowers and birds in basso-relievo.
  Dixon's father was Thomas Dixon, a hosier, of Cork Hill. His brother John Dixon, was a mezzotint engraver.
  In 1748, he was listed as a "picture dealer and painter" in Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland.
  Dixon produced sets of twelve hand-coloured basso-relievo prints. He advertised the first, featuring floral arrangements, in Faulkner's Dublin Journal on 26 April 1748. The next year he followed these with a set of designs copied from volumes 1–4 of George Edward's Natural History of Uncommon Birds.
  He employed a number of apprentices or pupils to hand-colour his prints, among them was Gustavus Hamilton, Daniel O'Keeffe and James Reilly.
  In later life he opened a shop in London and exhibited his works there, returning to Dublin in 1768. He returned to London, and died there on 27 January, 1769.
context_section_description: Samuel Dixon (died 1769) was an Irish artist, known for his water colour paintings and his depictions of flowers and birds in basso-relievo (embossed papier-mâché).
  Dixon's father was Thomas Dixon, a hosier, of Cork Hill. His brother John Dixon, was a mezzotint engraver.
  In 1748, he was listed as a "picture dealer and painter" in Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland.
  Dixon produced sets of twelve hand-coloured basso-relievo prints. He advertised the first, featuring floral arrangements, in Faulkner's Dublin Journal on 26 April 1748. The next year he followed these with a set of designs copied from volumes 1–4 of George Edward's Natural History of Uncommon Birds (1743–1751).
  He employed a number of apprentices or pupils to hand-colour his prints, among them was  Gustavus Hamilton, Daniel O'Keeffe and James Reilly.
  In later life he opened a shop in London and exhibited his works there, returning to Dublin in 1768. He returned to London, and died there on 27 January, 1769.
caption: A print from a set of twelve
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