George Clint

George Clint (12 April 1770 – 10 May 1854) was an English painter and engraver who specialised in portrait painting.

Life Clint was born in Brownlow Street, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, the son of Michael Clint, a hairdresser in Lombard Street. He went to school in Yorkshire and was then apprenticed to a fishmonger, but left after a violent dispute with his employer. He found alternative employment in an attorney's office, but took exception to the work and became a house-painter instead - one of his jobs was painting the stones of the arches in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He also decorated the exterior of a house built by Sir Christopher Wren in Cheapside, and was later employed by the bookseller Thomas Tegg.

His early engravings include The Frightened Horse, after George Stubbs; The Entombment, after Dietrich; The Death of Nelson, after Samuel Drummond, and a set of the Raphael Cartoons in outline. His mezzotints included The Trial of Queen Caroline, after George Henry Harlow; a portrait of William Pitt the Younger, after John Hoppner; a portrait of Margaret, Lady Dundas, after Thomas Lawrence; a portrait of Sarah Siddons, again after Lawrence, and a print after a self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. There are also portraits of the engraver George Cook; the publisher John Bell; the actors Edmund Kean, Charles Young (as Hamlet), William Dowton and John Liston (the latter as Paul Pry) and the actresses Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Julia Glover. Of his other sons Raphael Clint (1797–1849) was an engraver and Alfred Clint (1807–1833) a marine painter.