George Baxter

Does anyone know any detail about this artist - I believe he came over from Cork Ireland in about 1840, exhibited 31 times at the British Institute between 1841 - 1869 but would he have been a well known a reputed artist by 1851 OR could he have been employed by Baxter about that time to paint views

Baxter was apprenticed to S Williams in the 1820's. We known that SW was a well respected wood engraver in the style of Bewick (using hard woods and finer tools, as used for engraving of steel plates to create much superior work). We have a number of books with early wood engravings by Baxter which

Has anyone got a copy of this book, if so I would love to hear from you. It purportedly has engravings by George Baxter which are sometimes marked Baxter Sc

Harrison Weir born in Lewes in 1824 and  became a well known animal painter during the 1800's. When he was 13 he was apprenticed to George Baxter in London. As GB had been away from Lewes some 9-10 years before this local lad from his home town came to join him we must presume that GB's father, who

This original painting of Baxter’s Circassion Lady at the Bath– Baxter states that it was painted by Wingael, but who was Wingael? I can’t find any info the painter, can anyone help

In May 1860, due to financial problems,  Baxter's plant, equipment, plates and blocks were put up for auction by Southgate and Barrett.  They were not sold and Baxter carried on in business republising his works 'at vastly reduced prices'. On his retirement in 1865? again all his equipment and prin

Does anyone have a copy of this book or access to it. Contemporary adverts state that this book contains 25 engravings from Drawings by J M W Turner, H Melville and George Baxter. There is no record of this book or what prints or wood engravings by Baxter, if any, are included, can anyone help

Cornellius Rahmn was a missionary for the London Missionary Society in the early 1800's. He appears to have worked in his native Sweden, Siberia (with the Rev Edward Stallybrass) before being recalled to London in 1826 to work in the Foreign department of the Society finishing working for them abou