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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Marchant, Nathaniel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | He was a pupil of Edward Burch and briefly studied drawing at the St Martins Lane Academy (1766), but, inspired by the 3rd Duke of Richmonds gallery of casts, he soon pursued an original line, concentrating on engraving in intaglio copies of ancient sculptures (see fig.). |
 | | He exhibited (176574) with the Society of Artists, of which he became a fellow and briefly a director; in the last two years he sent his submissions from Rome, where he had gone to study the monuments of antiquity in the original. |
 | | At first he worked for patrons at home, principally for George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough; for the Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, later 8th Earl of Bridgwater, he engraved Priam at the Feet of Achilles (sard, 1784; Belton House, Lincs, NT). |
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