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Doo, George Thomas
(b Surrey, 6 Jan 1800; d Sutton, Surrey, 13 Nov 1886). English engraver. He was a pupil of Charles Heath (i). In 1824 he published his first plate, engraved after a portrait of the Duke of York (exh. RA 1822; untraced) by Thomas Lawrence. In 1836 he was appointed Engraver in Ordinary to William IV and in 1842 received a similar appointment to Queen Victoria. With his colleague John Henry Robinson, he petitioned the Queen and Albert, the Prince Consort, on the matter of his profession’s exclusion from full membership of the Royal Academy (under whose auspices, incidentally, he exhibited 24 pieces between 1830 and 1882). As a result, a new class of Academician Engravers and Associate Engravers was instituted. Doo himself became an ARA in 1856 and a full Academician in 1857. His tour de force is the crisp line-engraving after William Etty’s gigantic painting, The Combat (exh. RA 1825; Edinburgh, N.G.), published in June 1849.
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