John Samuel Agar, Date of Birth, Date of Death

John Samuel Agar

English painter and engraver

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1773

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1858

Profession: painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

John Samuel Agar (1773–1858), was an English portrait painter and engraver, who exhibited his works at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1806 and at the British Institution until 1811.
He did not exhibit again until 1836.
He had been declared bankrupt in February of the previous year.He was at one time president of the Society of Engravers.
His engravings were chiefly in stipple.
They include works after Richard and Maria Cosway, and a series of allegories of the months after Edward Francis Burney, published by Rudolf Ackermann in 1807-9.
His illustrations for Richard Payne Knight's Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman: Selected from different collections in Great Britain (1809), have been described by Nicholas Penny as "the finest ever made of sculpture".



Description	English painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	19 December 1773	11 April 1858
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q6256572 VIAF: 46693754 ISNI: 0000 0000 5322 7795 ULAN: 500053578 LCCN: nr2001045013 SUDOC: 158702379 WorldCat