John Greenwood
American (worked in England), 1727 - 1792
Portrait and landscape painter, mezzotinter and auctioneer; b.Boston (America) 1727; d. Margate 1792; apprenticed to engraver; to Surinam in 1752-7; in Amsterdam 1758 where trained as mezzotinter under Elgersma; to London via Paris in 1763; remained in England until his death; exhibited SA 1764-76; from c. 1773 worked primarily as an auctioneer rather than printmaker, becoming one of the principal London dealers in old master paintings.
