English engraving — Horsburgh, John

Born at Prestonpans studied drawing at the Trustees' Academy. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver, and worked under him for some years. Horsburgh engraved plates after J. M. W. Turner, for England and Wales, William Bernard Cooke's Southern Coast of England, and Walter Scott's works, and other publications. He engraved several single plates, including Prince Charlie reading a Despatch, after William Simson, Sir Walter Scott, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, and another portrait of Scott after John Watson Gordon. His son John A. Horsburgh (1835–1924) was also an artist.