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Other artists whose work was copied for use in Thornton’s works (continued)
Thornton: New illustration, Botanical extracts, Temple of Flora : Comparison of plates
Jacques Louis David (1743-1825)
Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). His name was misspelled “Chret” by Thornton’s engravers.
Marchese Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) - suppositious artist.
Etienne François Geoffroy (1672-1731)
Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712)
Guercino (1591-1666)
Magnus Hallman (1745-1822) His name was misspelled “Hollman” by Thornton’s engravers.
Martin Hoffmann (fl.1730s). Pupil of Linnaeus, and painter of the portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland dress. His name was originally correctly spelled
“Hoffmann” by Thornton’s engraver Kingsbury, but later amended by Dunkarton to the incorrect “Hoffman”.
Henry Howard (1769-1847)
Carl Fridrik Inlander (fl.1770s), designer of a wax medallion of Linnaeus which was copied for one of Thornton’s plates.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
John Opie(1761-1807)
Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)
Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), signed as “Portrait painter to the King”
Raphael (1483-1520)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
Romagni
John Russell (1745-1806), signed as “Portrait painter to the King”, “Portrait painter to Their Majesties”.
Francis Sansom (fl.1780s-1810s). His name is listed as artist on a plate copied from Curtis’s Flora Londinensis, whereas he was actually only the
engraver, not the artist, of that plate.
François Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (1706-1767). Royal Professor of Botany from 1755. His name is misspelled “Sauvage” by Thornton’s
engravers.
Sang-so, signed as “A Chinese”. Unidentified.
Charles Thevenin (1764-1838)
Joseph Townsend (1739-1816). Illustrated his own Journey in Spain (1791). One of his plates, of the Escorial, is reproduced in altered form on the
plate bearing Townsend’s portrait.
Wo-siong. Unidentified.