Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Haward, Francis
HAWARD, FRANCIS (1759–1797), engraver, born on 19 April 1759, became in 1776 a student of the Royal Academy, and in the same year engraved in mezzotint a portrait of James Ferguson the astronomer, after J. Northcote. His other engravings in mezzotint are ‘Master Bunbury,’ after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1781), a justly admired print, and ‘Euphrasia,’ after W. Hamilton. Haward subsequently adopted the fashionable stipple manner, or rather the mixed style, of Bartolozzi, in which he attained genuine excellence. His principal engravings in this method are ‘Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse,’ and ‘Cymon and Iphigenia,’ after Sir Joshua Reynolds. The former was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1787, and the latter in 1797. He also exhibited in 1783 ‘A Cupid,’ in 1788 ‘Portrait of Madam d'Eon in her 25th year, from a picture by Angelica Kauffmann,’ in 1792 an unfinished engraving, and in 1793 a finished proof of ‘The Prince of Wales,’ after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Haward was elected an associate engraver in 1783, and was eventually appointed ‘engraver to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.’ He resided for many years in Marsh Street, Lambeth, and is stated to have died there in 1797. His last engraving, however, the ‘Cymon and Iphigenia,’ bears the address of 3 Little George Street, Westminster. Among his other engravings are ‘The Infant Academy,’ after Reynolds, portraits of Charles, marquis Cornwallis, and of Captain William Cornwallis, both after D. Gardner, and others after C. Rosalba, W. Hamilton, and A. Zucchi. His widow received a pension from the Royal Academy for forty-two years.
[Dodd's manuscript Hist. of English Engravers (Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 33401); Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Sandby's Hist. of the Royal Academy; Hamilton's Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds.]