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Cardon, Anthony [Antoine]
(b Brussels, 15 May 1772; d London, 16 April 1813). Flemish engraver and print publisher, active in London. The son of Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon (1739–1822), a painter and engraver in Brussels, he was persuaded by the troubled times to go to London in 1792. He entered the Royal Academy Schools on 3 November 1792 and was engaged by Paul Colnaghi to engrave, under the direction of Luigi Schiavonetti, three of the Cries of London after Francis Wheatley in 1794–6. Cardon was an enterprising man, soon establishing himself as an independent publisher. He took advantage of the peace of 1801, in that year engraving and publishing in Paris and London Joseph Boze’s painting of The First Consul and General Berthier at the Battle of Marengo (untraced) jointly with the painter. He was known to Joseph Farington, who noted some of his activities, such as his purchase of two paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg for engraving (4 March 1805) and his defeat by Thomas Landseer in a ballot at the Royal Academy for Associate Engravers (10 Feb 1806). He was the joint proprietor of four large plates of the Storming of Seringapatam after Robert Ker Porter with Luigi Schiavonetti and his brother Niccolo Schiavonetti, with whom he frequently worked. In 20 years Cardon produced a great number of plates of historical subjects as well as portraits and was thought to have died as a result of over-application.
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