RA Collection: People and Organisations
Draper; bought up to be a fishmonger in Dover but ran away to sea and eventually became a brandy merchant and draper in Covent Garden; Friend of William Hogarth and accompanied him on his “Peregrination” in 1732. (Einberg has the date of his death as 1768 in ‘The works of George Lambert’, Walpole Society LXII). [Source: British Museum biographical entry].
Born: 1698
Died: 1770
Nationality: British
Gender: Male