CHAPMAN, J., - Frederick the Great (portrait) Engraved for the Encyclopedia Londinensis 1825.

1825, 16,5x11,5cm, with margins 27x21cm, (stipple) engraved portrait by J. Chapman with small view of the emperor inspecting troops, some age staining, fold outside plate, John Chapman (active 1792-1823), engraver, one of the most gifted stipple engravers of the late eighteenth century, relatively little is known of the life of John Chapman. He is thought to have been mostly self-taught. During his career, Chapman engraved exceptional allegorical subjects after the designs of J. Smith and Raphael Corbould. He worked closely with Thomas Macklin on his Shakespeare series; almost half of the engravings bear his name. This portrait not in National Gallery.