Samuel Davenport (engraver)

Davenport is said by Redgrave to have 700 portraits for one publication alone. Examples of his work are the plates which he engraved for the Forget-Me-Not annual between 1828 and 1842, and which include:^[2]

• The Sister's Dream, Fathime and Euphrosyne, and The Disappointment, after Henry Corbould;
• The Orphan Family, after Alexander Chisholm;
• The Frosty Reception and Uncle Anthony's Blunder, after Robert William Buss;
• Chains of the Heart, after John Cawse;
• Cupid caught tripping, after John Philip Davis;
• The Dance of the Peasants, from The Winter's Tale, after Robert Trewick Bone;
• Louis XI at Plessis-les-Tours, after Egide Charles Gustave Wappers; and
• Count Egmont's Jewels, after a drawing by James Holmes, from a sketch by Charles Robert Leslie.

All these plates were engraved on steel, which he was one of the earliest to adopt. He also engraved a small plate of The Infant St. John the Baptist, after Murillo.^[2]

• Engraving of The Sister's Dream., a painting by Henry Corbould in the Forget Me Not annual for 1828, with a poem by Felicia Hemans.
• Engraving of Infant St. John the Baptist., by Murillo for The Easter Gift, 1832, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davenport, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.