(b Anstruther, Fife, 1737; d Edinburgh, 1798). Scottish painter and engraver. He was a pupil of Allan Ramsay from c. 1752; in 1755 he joined Ramsay in Rome, where he remained for over a year, studying under the patronage of Robert Alexander, an Edinburgh banker. On Ramsay's return to Britain, Martin worked for him in London until 1775, painting most of the drapery work during the early and middle 1760s. By 1766, when he engraved Ramsay's portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau (Edinburgh, N.G.), he was earning over
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