Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bannermann, Alexander

by Ernest Radford

BANNERMANN, ALEXANDER (fl. 1766), engraver, was born in Cambridge about 1730. He engraved some plates for Alderman Boydell, ‘Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's Dream,’ after Ribera; the ‘Death of St. Joseph,’ after Velasquez; and ‘Dancing Children,’ after Le Maire. For Walpole's ‘Anecdotes of Painters’ he also engraved several portaits. In 1766 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists; in 1770 he is known to have been living in Cambridge. In Nagler's dictionary (ed. 1878) is a long list of his works; there are good specimens in the print room of the British Museum. [Redgrave's Dict. of Artists of Eng. School; Strutt's Dict. of Engravers; Nagler's Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon; Heineken's Dictionaire des Artistes.]

E. R.