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- John Faber the Younger
- Also known as
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John Faber the Younger
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primary name: Faber, John
- Details
- individual; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- c.1684-1756
- Address
- (1707) over against Essex Street, at the Blew Ball in Catherine Street
at the Two Golden Balls near the Savoy
(c.1721-5) Fountain Court in the Strand
(late 1720s) at the Green Door in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden
(c.1731-4) at the Green Door in Craven Buildings, Drury Lane
(c.1734 onwards) at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square, South Side
- Biography
- John Faber II, son of John Faber (and known as John Faber Junior until the death of his father in 1721), born Amsterdam moving to England around 1698; learned drawing and mezzotint engraving from his father and attended the academy in St. Martin's Lane. Became leading mezzotint engraver of his day engraving two series after Godfrey Kneller - twelve Hampton Court Beauties (1727) and forty-seven portraits of members of the Kit-Cat Club (1735); also completed forty-two mezzotints after portraits of Thomas Hudson and fifteen after Allan Ramsay; also made mezzotints after Philip Mercier's paintings.
- Bibliography
- Sheila O'Connell, ‘Faber, John (c.1695–1756)’, ODNB, Oxford 2004,
Chaloner Smith (419 nos)
J.C. Smith, 'British mezzotinto portrraits, 4 vols. in 5 (1878-84);
T. Clayton, 'The English Print, 1688-1802)', 1997;
See unpublished notes by E. Croft-Murray in Dept. Prints & Drawings, BM.