(b c. 1630; d ?London, 1680). English printmaker. He was trained by Wenzel Hollar and later collaborated with Francis Barlow for over fifteen years. Despite the fact that as an etcher Gaywood is clearly the inferior of the two, prints (and sometimes drawings) by Barlow have been wrongly assigned to him from time to time. An example of their close working relationship is the large print of Titian's Venus and the Organist, which Barlow dedicated to the virtuoso John Evelyn in 1656 (see Evelyn's Diary, ed. E. S. de Beer, Oxford, 1955, iii, p. 166, n. 5); despite the fact that it is signed by 'his friend' Gaywood, Barlow made it clear to Evelyn that he had engraved all the more important elements in the plate. Although Gaywood was included in William Sanderson's Graphice (1658), as one of 'Our Excellent Gravers for Prints', he rarely rose above a pedestrian level of skill. For the undated Democritus and Heraclitus (example London, BM) Gaywood copied his figures from paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn, one of which was Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver (1629; Mulgrave Castle, N. Yorks); this is probably the earliest English print made after that Dutch master.

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