Thomas Blackmore (c.1740–1780)

• Was a British mezzotint engraver.
• Was born in London about 1740.
• From the dates upon his prints, which range from 1769 to 1771, he appears to have practised his art or a very limited period of time.
• There are by him several well-drawn and brilliantly executed plates, which include portraits after Sir Joshua Reynolds of Samuel Foote, the actor, Mrs. Cholmondeley, Mrs. Anne James, as a Madonna, and, as a youth, Henry William Bunbury, the caricaturist, who afterwards married Miss Catharine Horneck, the ‘Little Comedy' of Goldsmith.
• Among his other plates are ‘Sigismonda,’ after Cosway; a 'Dutch Lady,' after Frans Hals; a ‘Man in a Cloak,' after Van Dyck; and ‘Innocence;’ as well as subjects after Molenaer and other painters.
• He died about 1780.
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