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Lupton, Thomas Goff
(b London, 3 Sept 1791; d London, 18 May 1873). English engraver. In 1805 he was apprenticed to George Clint, and he subsequently worked for S. W. Reynolds. He was one of the engravers employed on Turner’s Liber studiorum (1807–19), and from 1858 to 1864 re-engraved 15 of the plates for a projected series that was never published. Following William Say’s lead in 1820 in engraving mezzotints on steel plates rather than on copper ones, Lupton, after experiments on various metals, engraved on soft steel a portrait by Clint of the comedian Joseph Munden (O’Donoghue, no. 1), which was published in 1822 and which that year was awarded the Isis Gold Medal of the Society of Arts. Lupton subsequently became one of the most esteemed engravers of singly issued mezzotints to use steel plates. He produced over 100 portraits (e.g. Wellington, 1840; after Henry W. Briggs), as well as many prints after subject pictures by Turner and others (e.g. Sheerness from the Nore, 1828; after Turner). He also worked on Turner’s Rivers of England and Wales (1823–7) and Ports of England (1826–8).
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