John Finlayson (engraver)

Portrait of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, ca. 1765

John Finlayson (c. 1730 - 1776) was an English engraver.

Finlayson was born about the year 1730, and worked in London. In 1773 he received a premium from the Society of Arts, and about three years after this he died. He engraved in mezzotint several portraits, and a few plates of historical subjects, among which are the following:

Portraits

• The Duchess of Gloucester; after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
• Lady Charles Spenoer; after the same.
• Lady Elizabeth Melbourne; after the same.
• The Earl of Buchan; after the same.
• Miss Wynyard; after the same.
• Lady Broughton; after Cotes.
• The Duke of Northumberland; after Hamilton.
• Miss Metcalfe; after Hone.

Signora Zamperini La buona figliuola, 1769

• Signora Zamperini, in 'La Buona Figliuola' ; after the same.
• William Drummond, Scotch historian; after C. Janssens.
• Shooter, Beard, and Dunstall, in 'Love in a Village' ; after Zoffany.

Subjects

• Candaules, King of Lydia, showing his Queen coming out of the Bath to his favourite Gyges; after his own design.
• A. Collier, with his Pipe; after J. Weenix.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Finlayson, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.