John Young, mezzotint engraver, studied under Valentine Green then worked with several of the painters who collaborated with Green, notably Benjamin West, John Hoppner and Johann Gerhard Huck. In 1785, he began to publish his own prints, which he traded with Pierre-François Basan in France. Young executed some 80 portraits after various contemporaries, including several notable portraits of boxers. He was best known, however, for his engravings after West, Zoffany, Richard Morton Paye and Hoppner. In 1789 he was appointed mezzotint engraver to the Prince of Wales and in 1813 he was made keeper of the British Institution. He held the latter role until his death.
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