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James Neagle

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Life
Works
Family
Notes

James Neagle (1760?–1822) was a British engraver. Very largely a line engraver of book illustrations, he was prolific of designs by Thomas Stothard, Robert Smirke, Henry Fuseli, Gavin Hamilton, Henry Singleton, Richard Cook, and other popular artists.^[1]

Life

Neagle went to the Royal Academy art schools in 1786. He had many commissions from the publishing firm of Cadell & Davies.^[2] In 1801, in a civil action brought by Jean Marie Delattre the engraver against John Singleton Copley, over a plate, Neagle was a witness for the plaintiff. Towards the end of his life (after 1816) he emigrated to America.^[1]^[2]

Works

Neagle's work included plates for:^[1]

John Boydell's and other editions of Shakespeare, including plates after Francis Wheatley;^[2]
John Sharpe's and Charles Cooke's series of English Classics;
Edward Forster's Arabian Nights, 1802;
Gil Blas, 1809, translated by Benjamin Heath Malkin;^[2]
Ancient Terra-Cottas in the British Museum, 1810, by Taylor Combe;^[2] and
James Cavanah Murphy's Arabian Antiquities of Spain, 1816.

A major work was The Royal Procession in St. Paul's on St. George's Day, 1789, from a drawing by Edward Dayes.^[1]

Family

Neagle had a son, John B. Neagle (died 1866), who practised as an engraver in Philadelphia.^[1]

Notes

1. ^¹²³⁴{{cite DNB|wstitle=Neagle, James|volume=40}}
2. ^¹²³⁴{{cite ODNB|id=19816|title=Neagle, James|first=Vivienne W.|last=Painting}}

Attribution

4 : 1760 births|1822 deaths|British engravers|British illustrators

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