{ fl. 1670. A good many early mezzotint { prints bear these two names, but only { as publishers (_excudit_ not TOMPSON, Richard. { _sculpsit_), and there is great doubt BROWNE, Alexander. { if any were actually engraved by them. { Browne wrote the "Ars Pictoria" in { 1669, in which "The Manner or Way of { Mezo Tinto" is described; published by { himself, Tompson, and another. *BLOOTELINGH, Abraham. b. Amsterdam 1634; d. c. 1695. Line and (Pupil of Cornelius mezzotint. Came to England for a few Visscher.) years 1673. *VALCK, Gerard. b. Amsterdam c. 1626; d. c. 1720. (Pupil of Mezzotint and line. Accompanied Blootelingh.) Blootelingh to England, not leaving until after 1680. WHITE, Robert. b. London 1645; d. London 1704. Line. (Pupil of David Portrait draughtsman from life. Loggan.) *VANDERVAART, John. b. Haarlem 1647; d. London 1721. Mezzotinter and painter. Came to England 1674. *VAN SOMER, Paul. b. Amsterdam 1649; d. London 1694. (Pupil of John Van Mezzotint. Somer, probably his brother.) FAITHORNE, William, b. London 1656; d. London 1686. junr. (Son of Mezzotint. William Faithorne.) LUTTRELL, E. b. Dublin c. 1650; d. c. 1710. (Said to have Mezzotinter and crayon portraitist. learnt method of mezzotint from Blois, ground layer to Blootelingh.) BECKETT, Isaac. b. Kent 1653; d. 1719. Mezzotint. Prints (Attracted by all dated between 1681-88. Luttrell's works, learnt the method of mezzotint from Lloyd, a printseller, who is said to have obtained the secret from Blois, ground layer to Blootelingh.) SMITH, John. b. Daventry 1652; d. Northampton 1742. (Pupil of Beckett Mezzotint. and Vandervaart.) WILLIAMS, R. b. Wales. Mezzotint. Prints dated c. 1680 to 1704. *DORIGNY, Sir Nicholas. b. Paris 1657; d. Paris 1746. Line. Settled in London 1711-24. Knighted by George I. for his set of Raphael's cartoons. LENS, Bernard. b. London 1659; d. 1725. Mezzotint.