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Richard Earlom

Also known as: Richard Earlom; primary name: Earlom, Richard; other name: Birche, Henry
Details: individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
Life dates: 1743-1822
Biography: Mezzotinter. Chaloner Smith stated that the name Henry Birche found on some plates was a pseudonym of Earlom, and this is adopted here, although he might well be incorrect. Weigel believed that Earlom used the name when working for B. B. Evans while contracted to Boydell, but Wessely noted some plates published by Evans during Boydell's lifetime that bear Earlom's name. Lennox-Boyd (George Stubbs, p.231) suggests that "Henry Birche" could instead be a pseudonym for Robert Laurie while he was in partnership with Sayer: he refers to a first state impression of a mezzotint in the Hornby collection at Liverpool, which suggests that the plate was Laurie's, but 'finished' by Earlom.
Bibliography: See J.E.Wessely catalogue, Hamburg 1886 (nos.1-148 single sheets; 149-448 after Claude drawings; 449-492 after Cipriani drawings; finally appendix) Gregory Rubinstein, PQ VIII 1991, pp.2-27, Earlom & Boydell's Houghton Gallery

624 related objects

book of prints; print

Museum number: 1857,0613.984 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

book of prints; print

Museum number: 1857,0613.985.1-100 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

book of prints; print

Museum number: L,64.1-78 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1802-1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1881,0312.114 |
Producer name: Drawn by:AnonymousAfter:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1770-1815

drawing; print study

Museum number: 2011,7084.50 |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Drawn by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1760-1790

drawing

Museum number: 2011,7084.55 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Richard EarlomAfter:Nicolas Poussin |
Production date: 1780-1820

drawing

Museum number: Y,5.97 |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Drawn by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1773

drawing; print study

Museum number: 2011,7084.49 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: Venus and Adonis |
Museum number: 1864,1114.457 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Nicolas Poussin |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: The fig |
Museum number: 1842,0806.215 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1757-1785

print

Title: The larder Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.221 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: The larder Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.220 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: The descent from the cross |
Museum number: 1891,0414.650 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Lady and Child |
Museum number: V,9.44 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: Lady and child |
Museum number: 1872,0113.424 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: Lady and Child |
Museum number: 1885,0509.1482 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: Lady and Child |
Museum number: 1872,0113.402 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: Lady and Child |
Museum number: V,9.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: Meleager and Atalanta Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Ll,6.53 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1781

print

Title: The Honble. Mrs. Aldworth |
Museum number: 1902,1011.872 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Richard EarlomPublished by:S Cox |
Production date: 1811 |
Production place: Published in:Cork (town)

print

Museum number: 1877,0811.194 |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Print made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1758-1822

print

Title: The Revd. Thomas Lendrum |
Museum number: 1902,1011.893 |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Print made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1804

print

Museum number: 1861,1214.770.+ |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Print made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1763-1822

print

Title: The Last Supper |
Museum number: 1871,0610.723 |
Producer name: After:Benjamin WestPrint made by:Valentine Green |
Production date: 1783

print

Title: Jason |
Museum number: W,7.149 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoydellAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1765

print

Title: Sir Charles Thompson Baronet |
Museum number: T,9.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1800

print

Museum number: 1838,1110.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1780-1820

print

Title: Lady and Child |
Museum number: 1873,0809.57 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: The fig |
Museum number: 1891,0414.941 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1757-1785

print

Title: Richard Earlom Esqr. |
Museum number: 1950,0520.228 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas LuptonAfter:Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1819

print

Title: Sir Stephen Fox Knt. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.881 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:John James Backer |
Production date: 1758-1822

print

Title: The singers |
Museum number: 1874,0711.850 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Egbert van Heemskerck II |
Production date: 1768

print

Museum number: 1891,0414.1327 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1781

print

Title: George, fourth Earl of Waldegrave |
Museum number: 1874,1010.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:John Francis Rigaud |
Production date: 1781-1822

print

Title: Saint John preaching in the Wilderness The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: W,7.142 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BrowneAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1768

print

Title: The Right Honble Thomas Elder |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2552 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Henry Raeburn |
Production date: 1788-1798

print

Title: David Barclay |
Museum number: 1912,0612.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Houghton |
Production date: 1809

print

Museum number: W,7.138 |
Producer name: BIOG26091 Print made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1767

print

Title: David Barclay |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1322 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Houghton |
Production date: 1809

print

Title: St. John |
Museum number: 1837,0408.263 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Antonio Correggio |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: Sir Edward Astley, Bart. |
Museum number: 1838,0714.68 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: Love in bondage |
Museum number: 1874,0711.887.+ |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Guido Reni |
Production date: 1767

print

Museum number: 1937,0220.7 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Richard EarlomAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1771-1822

print

Title: Sir Stephen Fox, Knt. |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3376 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:John James Backer |
Production date: 1758-1822

print

Title: Sir Charles Thompson Baronet |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3378 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1800

print

Title: The Holy Family The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3354 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Guercino |
Production date: 1767

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.3357 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Guido Reni |
Production date: 1770

print

Title: James Macardel |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3379 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:James McArdell |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: The Rt. Hon.ble William Pitt, Late Chancellor of the Ecchequer |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3361 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Gainsborough Dupont |
Production date: 1806

print

Title: A fruit market Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.225 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: The game market Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.223 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Frans Snyders |
Production date: 1783

print

Title: A horses head Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.44 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bull Dogs and Badgers |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3373 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAttributed to:A Nelson |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cip |
Museum number: 1861,0518.361 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Giovan Battista Cipriani, Esq.r R.A. |
Museum number: Q,3.112 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Hyacinthe Rigaud |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4688 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Orpheus Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1876,1014.404 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Right Reverend Thomas Newton D.D., Lord Bishop of Bristol |
Museum number: 1838,0425.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Snipe Shooting |
Museum number: 2010,7081.1663 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomPublished by:Carington Bowles |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A fruit market Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.226 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: July The Twelve Months |
Museum number: 2010,7081.398 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Robert Dighton |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lioness and whelps |
Museum number: 1866,1208.574 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:James Northcote |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A brew-house yard |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2800 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:George Garrard |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4678 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cip |
Museum number: 1873,0809.222 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Virgin and Child The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: 2010,7081.3352 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Simone Cantarini |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1837,0408.124 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Antonio Correggio |
Production date: 1768 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d George Walker, F.R.S. |
Museum number: 1920,1211.1364 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomPublished by:Joseph Johnson |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cip |
Museum number: 1861,0518.347 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Meleager and Atalanta |
Museum number: 2006,U.403 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Richard Wilson |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Don Balthasar Carlos... |
Museum number: 1838,0420.201 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Diego Velázquez |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Heaviside, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.888 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Barrington |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2440 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Benjamin Wilson |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hippolitus |
Museum number: 1917,1208.2447 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Madam Mary Davis Portraits of characters illustrious in British His |
Museum number: 1902,1011.908 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomPublished by:Samuel Woodburn |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI Marriage A-la-Mode |
Museum number: S,2.79 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Lear, Act I, Scene I Shakespeare Gallery |
Museum number: Dd,6.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Henry Fuseli |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sir Thomas Chaloner Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: P,1.103 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:George Farington |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4699 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bathsheba bringing Abisag to David Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1983,U.63 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:George Farington |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1971,1110.11.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1971,1110.11.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4677 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1842,0806.209 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:David Teniers the Younger |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Richard Kempenfelt Esqr. |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2629 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Tilly Kettle |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Preparing for market |
Museum number: 1872,0511.374 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Francis Wheatley |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Le Duc d'Arenberg |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2832 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:Josiah Boydell |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: March The Twelve Months |
Museum number: 2010,7081.394 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Robert Dighton |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Samuel Barrington |
Museum number: 1877,0811.736 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Benjamin Wilson |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bathsheba bringing Abisag to David Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1868,1212.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:George Farington |
Production date: 1779 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cip |
Museum number: 1861,0518.366 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Rembrandt's wife Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1902,1011.896 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomIntermediary draughtsman:George Farington |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: A shepherd |
Museum number: 1895,1015.120 |
Producer name: After:Richard EarlomAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Painting, in the year 1771 |
Museum number: 1872,0608.67 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Michel Vincent Brandoin |
Production date: 1772 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Gloucester & Edinburgh, Earl of Connaugh in Ireland |
Museum number: 1902,1011.885 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Hugh Douglas Hamilton |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Richard Cromwell Portraits of characters illustrious in British His |
Museum number: 1902,1011.907 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomPublished by:Samuel Woodburn |
Production date: 1810-1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Richard Kempenfelt, Esqr. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.890 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Tilly Kettle |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bacchanalians Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1891,0414.1325 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Their most Sacred Majesties George the IIId and Queen Charlotte,... |
Museum number: Q,2.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Johan Joseph Zoffany |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Liber Veritatis |
Museum number: 1872,1012.4692 |
Producer name: After:Claude LorrainPrint made by:Richard Earlom |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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