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(b ?London, 1728; d there, 17 Feb 1796). English composer. He was organist in London at the Middle Temple, the Charterhouse and St Paul's Cathedral. His works include a book of psalm chants, songs and three vigorous dramatic collections of harpsichord music (1754-61).
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(b c. 1740; d ?1797). Engraver. His earliest mezzotint, Dr William Pitcairne (see Chaloner Smith, no. 62), the first of his 25 mezzotints after Reynolds, is dated 1777. From then until 1780 he engraved mezzotints for publishers; he published three satires jointly with Thomas Rowlandson in 1780, and subsequently published nearly all his own prints. He had great success with his mezzotint of Charles James Fox (1784) after Reynolds; the demand was such that he engraved four almost identical plates. Most of Jones's mezzotints were three-quarter lengths, engraved in a much freer and more impressionistic way than usual. From 1785 he engraved in stipple, publishing, in addition to portraits, a number of humorous stipples after Henry William Bunbury, a few of which were by other engravers. In 1789 he took as an apprentice Charles Turner, later one of the best of all English mezzotint engravers. In 1790 he was appointed engraver to the Prince of Wales and also to the Duke of York, shortly after publishing a full-length stipple of the latter (see Hamilton, p. 74) after Reynolds. Nearly all Jones's 90 or so mezzotints were portraits; among his subject plates is Beatrice, Hero and Ursula (1791; CS 87) after Henry Fuseli. Another success was Mrs. Jordan as Hippolyta (1791; CS 41) after John Hoppner; some impressions of this were printed in colour. Jones issued no prints after 1796, and the publication in 1800 by his wife of a View of Petersham, after Reynolds and finished in 1796 (see Hamilton, p. 155), suggests that he had died by then.
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