George Thomas Doo

George Thomas Doo (6 January 1800 – 13 November 1886) was a British engraver.

Life Doo was born near Christ Church in Southwark, London. His teacher was Charles Heath. He went to Paris in 1825. There he studied in the Suisse atelier, and also attended a school run by Antoine-Jean Gros, according to Thompson Cooper; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests his study under Charles-Alexandre Suisse might have been later. He acquired the techniques of drawing from the life, and passed them on to pupils in England.

He took on William Duffield as a non-paying pupil, and William Thomas Roden was an apprentice. Another pupil was Thomas Leeming Grundy. He was made a Royal Academician in 1857. Doo died in Sutton, Surrey.

Works In 1824 he published his first plate, after a portrait of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany by Thomas Lawrence.

Doo's better-known works include his 1848 line-engraving The Combat after William Etty's painting from 1825. He is also known for his engraving of "Knox preaching before the Lords of the Congregation" after David Wilkie, "Italian Pilgrims coming in sight of Rome" after Charles Lock Eastlake, the "Infant Christ" after Raphael and the "Ecce Homo" after Correggio. His 1864 engraving of the "Raising of Lazarus" by Sebastiano del Piombo took him eight years.