John Horsburgh

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John Horsburgh (1791–1869) was a Scottish historical engraver.

Life

Born at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, he was left an orphan early, and studied drawing at the Trustees' Academy. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver, and worked under him for some years.^[1]

At the age of about sixty Horsburgh retired from active work, and undertook gratuitously the duties of pastor in the Scottish Baptist church. He died at 16 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, on 24 September 1869.^[1]

Works

Engraving of J. M. W. Turner artwork of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1824

Horsburgh engraved plates after J. M. W. Turner, for England and Wales, William Bernard Cooke's Southern Coast of England, and Walter Scott's works, and other publications. He engraved several single plates, including Prince Charlie reading a Despatch, after William Simson, Sir Walter Scott, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, and another portrait of Scott after John Watson Gordon. His pastoral addresses were published with a short memoir prefixed immediately after his death.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cust 1891.

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Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1891). "Horsburgh, John". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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