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John Simon

Also known as: John Simon; primary name: Simon, John; other name: Simon, Jean
Details: individual; printmaker; publisher/printer; British; French; Male
Life dates: c.1675-1751
Address: (until late 1710s) Cross-Lane Long Acre (after 1720) Seven Stars in King Street, Covent Garden Golden Eagle in Villiers Street New Street, Covent Graden
Biography: Mezzotinter. b. Normandy, trained Paris as a line engraver, fled to England as a Huguenot c.1700 where became a mezzotinter. Early work for Edward Cooper; by c.1720 published most plates himself. Ceased work after 1742. Plates sold in November 1761.
Bibliography: Chaloner Smith (177 nos)

550 related objects

print

Title: The Judgment of Paris |
Museum number: 1877,1013.1034 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Theodorus Turquetus Mayernius |
Museum number: P,3.189 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Theodorus Turquetus Mayernius |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4302 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Theodorus Turquetus Mayernius |
Museum number: G,10.146 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Iudith and Holofernes's Head |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1238 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highnefs Prince Fredrick Duke of Glocefter &c |
Museum number: 1888,0515.39 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPublished by:John Simon |
Production date: 1718

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark ... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.148 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac BeckettPrint made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1683-1688

print

Title: The Rt Honble the Countess of Bridgwater |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4216 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Michael Dahl |
Production date: 1700-1714

print

Title: Sr Samuel Garth MD |
Museum number: P,8.213 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline &c |
Museum number: 1871,1209.2780 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1728

print

Title: Thomas Southerne Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4337 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:James Worsdale |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble Sr Robert Walpole |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4365 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Hans Hysing |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince Frederick & |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4263 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Fountain |
Production date: 1723-1742

print

Title: Ezechiel Spanhemius |
Museum number: 1838,0420.143 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Benjamin Arlaud |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4266 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: Her Highness Princes Carolina Elizabeth, Third Daughter to his Majesty King George the Second |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4225 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Martin Maingaud |
Production date: 1720-1742

print

Title: His Royl Highness William Augustus Duke of Cumberland &c |
Museum number: 1888,0515.32 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1730s

print

Title: The Rt Honble the Countess of Bridgwater. |
Museum number: 1874,0808.2299 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Michael Dahl |
Production date: 1700-1714

print

Title: The Right Honble Horatio Walpole Esq |
Museum number: 1864,0813.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Carle Van Loo |
Production date: 1741

print

Title: The Right Reverend Father in God Robert Clavering |
Museum number: 1944,1014.510 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Thomas Gibson |
Production date: 1728-1742

print

Title: Mr. Cibber. |
Museum number: K,58.154 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Giuseppe Grisoni |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: The Right Honble William Pulteney Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4324 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble Margeretta Maria Lady North & Grey |
Museum number: 1874,0808.2309 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPublished by:John Simon |
Production date: 1705-1735

print

Title: His most Serene Highness Prince Charles of Lorrain |
Museum number: 1935,0413.23 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1700-1713

print

Title: The Right Honble Philip Dormer Stanhope E of Chesterfield, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Gar |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4232 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1726-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble Philip Dormer Stanhope E. of Chesterfield, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Ga |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4233 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1726-1742

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Wilhelmina Charlotta Princess of Wales. |
Museum number: 1874,0808.2306 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPrinted by:John Simon |
Production date: 1717

print

Title: Iacobus DG Angliae primus & Scotia sextus Rex |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4287 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Serenissima et Potentissima Anna D G Angl Scot Fran & Hib Regina |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4204 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1714-1723

print

Title: His Royal Highnefs Frederick Prince of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1888,0515.41 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1729

print

Title: Sr Cloudesly Shovel |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4330 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Michael Dahl |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble John Lord Cuts &c. |
Museum number: P,7.148 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1700s

print

Title: the Right Honble William Ld Harrington |
Museum number: 1864,0813.91 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Fayram |
Production date: 1700-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highnefs Prince Frederick &c |
Museum number: 1888,0515.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Fountain |
Production date: 1723-1742

print

Title: His Royl Highness William Augustus Duke of Cumberland &c |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4244 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Carlo Francesco Rusca |
Production date: 1740s-1760s

print

Title: Thomas Southerne Esqr |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4336 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:James Worsdale |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: The R R Father in God Thos Wilson |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4374 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Richard Phillips |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Honourable Sr Arthur Kaye Baronet Member of Parliament for the County of York |
Museum number: 1864,0813.115 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPublished by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1874,0808.2304 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:William Dobson |
Production date: 1690-1725

print

Title: Charles Duke of Somerset Marquis & Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4335 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Sr Samuel Garth MD |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4270 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Sr Samuel Garth MD |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4271 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Ludovicus XV D. G. Franciae et Navarrae Rex |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2416 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Hyacinthe Rigaud |
Production date: 1720-1751

print

Title: The Right Honble John Lord Cuts &c. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4245 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1700s

print

Title: The R R Father in God Thos Wilson STP |
Museum number: 1888,0515.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Richard Phillips |
Production date: 1700-1742

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Augusta Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4209 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Simon |
Production date: 1719-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble Philip Dormer Stanhope E. of Chesterfield, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Ga |
Museum number: 1950,0520.70 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1726-1742

print

Title: The Right Honourable William Earl Cadogan Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces &ca. |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1213 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Laguerre |
Production date: 1700s-1720s

print

Title: The Right Hon.ble William Lord North & Grey, Baron of Kertling & Rolleston |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1847 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1710s-1720s

print

Title: Ezechiel Spanhemius |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1227 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Benjamin Arlaud |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Her Highness Princess Ann, Eldest Daughter to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales |
Museum number: 1918,1012.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: Caleb D'Anvers of Grays-Inn, Esqr |
Museum number: 1850,1014.313 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPublished by:Philip Overton |
Production date: 1720

print

Title: Mr. Cibber |
Museum number: Q,1.87 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Giuseppe Grisoni |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: Richardus Waddell STD SAndrea Archidiaconus |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4363 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Mr. Cibber |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Giuseppe Grisoni |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: His most sacred Majesty King George, their Royal Highness's the Prince and Princess of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4274 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1720-1730

print

Title: The Right Honble Sr Thomas Parker Kt Lord Cheif Justice of England |
Museum number: 1930,1013.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1718-1720

print

Title: The Reverend Mr. Benjamin Hoadly B.D., Rector of St. Peter Poor, London |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4279 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1704-1716

print

Museum number: 1902,1011.4347 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1732-1742

print

Title: Serenissima et Potentissima Anna D Gr Mag. Brit Francia ¬ et Hibernia Regina &c Inaugurata XXIIIº di |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4203 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1702-1714

print

Title: Regina Elizabetha |
Museum number: O,7.204 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Nicholas Hilliard |
Production date: 1700-1725

print

Title: His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4268 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: Her most Excellent Majesty by the Grace of God Queen of Great Britain France and Ireland &c &c |
Museum number: 1935,0413.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1761

print

Title: Thomas Southerne Esqr |
Museum number: K,64.214 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:James Worsdale |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline &c. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4226 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1728

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: Her Highness Princes Carolina Elizabeth, Third Daughter to his Majesty King George the Second |
Museum number: 1902,1011.8110 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Martin Maingaud |
Production date: 1720-1742

print

Title: Humphrey Prideaux DD Dean of Norwich Poets and Philosophers of England |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4251 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Right Honourable Simon Lord Frasier of Lovat, Chief of the Clan of the Frasers &c. |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.121 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Le Clare |
Production date: 1700-1725

print

Title: Charles Duke of Somerset Marquis & Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour |
Museum number: 1858,0213.204 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1702-1714

print

Title: The Reverend Mr William Tong |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4357 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Wollaston |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Robert Clavering |
Museum number: 1881,1112.155 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Thomas Gibson |
Production date: 1728-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highness Prince William Augustus, Duke of Lancaster, and First Knight of the Bath, In the |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4242 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1725-1742

print

Title: Thomas Britton the famous Musical Small-coal Man |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4219 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Woolaston |
Production date: 1736-1742

print

Title: Carolus Imus DG Ang Scot Fra et Hib Rex |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4231 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Anthony van Dyck |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: John Duke of Argyll |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4207 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Michael Dahl |
Production date: 1719-1742

print

Title: Isaacus Newton Eq Aura |
Museum number: G,6.122 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir James Thornhill |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Duke of Savoy |
Museum number: 1888,0515.50 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonPublished by:Edward Cooper |
Production date: 1710s

print

Title: His Royal Highness Ernest Augustus Duke of York, &c |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1237 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1718

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Augusta Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4210 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Simon |
Production date: 1719-1742

print

Title: His most sacred Majesty King George, their Royal Highness's the Prince and Princess of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1873,0809.561 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1720-1730

print

Title: The Rt Revd Father in God Joseph by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Rochester |
Museum number: Q,1.51 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Enoch Seeman |
Production date: 1721

print

Title: Thomas Britton the famous Musical Smal-coaleMan. |
Museum number: P,8.242 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Woolaston |
Production date: 1710

print

Title: Her Highness Princess Mary, Fourth Daughter to his Majesty King George the Second |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4299 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Her Highness Princess Mary, Fourth Daughter to his Majesty King George the Second |
Museum number: 1867,0309.1170 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1738-1742

print

Title: His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wales &c |
Museum number: 1888,0515.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Philippe Mercier |
Production date: 1734-1742

print

Title: Her Highness Princes Amelia Sophia Elenora; Second Daughter to his Royall Highness George Prince of |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4198 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Martin Maingaud |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: The Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4208 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1718

print

Title: Mr Mathew Prior |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1226 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Jonathan Richardson Senior |
Production date: 1718-1742

print

Title: Priscilla Cooper |
Museum number: 1876,1111.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Thomas Gibson |
Production date: 1726-1742

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Wilhelmina Charlotta Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4222 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1717

print

Title: Johannes Locke, Gilbert Ld Bishop of Sarum, Humphr Poets and Philosophers of England |
Museum number: 1888,0515.38 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Geffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spencer, William Shakespea Poets and Philosophers of England |
Museum number: 1888,0515.33 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: Charles Duke of Somerset Marquis & Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4334 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1690-1742

print

Title: The Right Honble Sr Stephen Fox Knt Domestick Servant to King Charles ye 2d during his Exile... |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4259 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John James Backer |
Production date: 1701

print

Title: Regina Elizabetha |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4248 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Nicholas Hilliard |
Production date: 1700-1725

print

Title: Her Royal Highness Augusta Princess of Wales |
Museum number: 1902,1011.4211 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:John Simon |
Production date: 1719-1742

print

Title: The Reverend Mr. Benjamin Hoadly B.D., Rector of St. Peter Poor, London |
Museum number: G,1.176 |
Producer name: BIOG46284 Print made by:John Simon |
Production date: 1704-1716

print

Title: Joao Gomez da Silva Conde de Tarouca |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1230 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Sir Godfrey Kneller |
Production date: 1709

print

Title: Her Highness Princes Sophia Elenora; Second Daughter to his Royall Highness George Prince of Wales |
Museum number: 1874,0808.1205 |
Producer name: Print made by:John SimonAfter:Martin Maingaud |
Production date: 1720-1742

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