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Boydell was born, according to his monument in St Olave Old Jewry, London, at Dorrington, in the parish of Woore, Shropshire, to Josiah and Mary Boydell ( née Milnes ) and was educated at least partially at Merchant Taylors ' School.
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A typeface for the Festival, Festival Titling, was specially commissioned and designed by Philip Boydell.
He found a commission awaiting him from Alderman Boydell, who was then organizing his famous Shakespeare Gallery.
John Boydell ( 19 January 1720 – 12 December 1804 ) was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings.
His father was a land surveyor and young Boydell, the oldest of seven children, was expected to follow in his footsteps.
In 1731, when Boydell was eleven, the family moved to Hawarden, Flintshire.
A year later, like many other enterprising young men of the time, Boydell resolved to sail to the East Indies in hopes of making his fortune, but he abandoned the scheme in favour of returning to Flintshire and Elizabeth Lloyd, the woman he was courting.
In either 1740 or 1741, Boydell saw a print of Hawarden Castle by William Henry Toms and was so delighted with it that he immediately set out again for London in order to learn printmaking and Lloyd promised to wait for him.
Winifred Friedman, who has written extensively on Boydell, explains that despite this success, " hat rankled Boydell was that the French would not extend credit, or exchange prints ; he was required to produce hard cash.
Boydell took action, and this was the turning point.
Boydell's biographer, Sven Bruntjen, hypothesizes that one of the reasons for Boydell ’ s early and phenomenal success was his specialization.
Bruntjen argues that " despite the extensive sales of varied types of reproductive prints, it was the contemporary history print which accounted for the major part of Boydell ’ s success as a print dealer ".
Most notable among these was the Death of General Wolfe a 1770 painting by Benjamin West, engraved by Woollett for Boydell in 1776.
As early as 1767, Boydell had stopped engraving prints himself and began exclusively relying on commissions and trades and it was from these that he profited.
Boydell was acknowledged and praised throughout England as the agent of this stunning economic reversal.
Boydell ’ s crowning achievement was his Shakespeare project, which was to occupy much of the last two decades of his life.
The idea of a grand Shakespeare edition was conceived at a dinner at Josiah Boydell ’ s home in November 1786.
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* 8 November – Brian Boydell, composer, professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin ( born 1917 ).
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Boydell apprenticed himself to Toms and enrolled in St. Martin's Lane Academy to learn drawing.
* Bonner, Gerald, Rollason, David & Stancliffe, Clare, eds., St. Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200, 1989, Boydell and Brewer, ISBN 0-85115-610-X 9780851156101
* Jankulak, Karen ( 2000 ) The Medieval Cult of St. Petroc Boydell Press ( 19 Oct 2000 ) ISBN 978-0-85115-777-1
Boydell and Mary Broughton are both buried at St Mary on Allyn, along with their son, Henry, who died when he was one year old.
Boydell and Old
According to Josiah, John Boydell caught a cold by going to the Old Bailey on a damp, foggy day to do his duty as an alderman.
Boydell and London
*" A Polite Exchange of Bullets ; The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 ", Dr Stephen Banks, Boydell and Brewer, London, 2010
A Roman Monument at Igel in the Dutchy of Luxemburgh, coloured engraving published by John Boydell, London ( 1783 ) from a painting by Edward Rooker ( 1712 ?- 1774 ) after William Pars ( 1742 – 1782 )
Amidst all of the work generated by these publishing enterprises, Boydell still found time to be alderman of Cheap ward in 1782, master of the Stationers ' Company in 1783, sheriff of London in 1785, and Lord Mayor of London in 1790.
John Boydell shown in 1791 during his year as Lord Mayor of London
London: John and Josiah Boydell, 1805.
John Boydell ( 1719 – 1804 ): A Study of Art Patronage and Publishing in Georgian London.
The manuscript is held by Dr Williams's Library in London, and in 2007 the Boydell Press published a 6 volume edition of the text.
George Dance the Younger's Boydell Shakespeare Gallery | Shakespeare Gallery building ( 1788 ), shown in 1851 after its purchase by the British Institution ( from an engraving in London edited by Charles Knight ( publisher ) | Charles Knight )
* Vaughan, Richard, Philip the Good, ( The Boydell Press: London, 2004 )
He went to London at the age of 18 with an introduction to the print seller John Boydell, who gave him work and introduced him to William Blizard, the surgeon.
In addition to the company's four primary imprints and partners, Camden House, University of Rochester Press, James Currey, and Tamesis, Boydell & Brewer publish and distribute for the Victoria County History, the Royal Historical Society, the London Record Society and the Scottish Text Society as well as several other societies.
French Musical Philosophies 1750-1950 ( Rochester: University of Rochester Press / London: Boydell & Brewer, 1995 ; previously published in French ; also published in Japanese )
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* Sullivan, Ceri and Graeme Harper, ed., The Creative Environment: Authors at Work ( Cambridge: English Association / Boydell and Brewer, 2009 )
Engraving of Banks ' sculpture Shakespeare attended by Painting and Poetry at the entrance to the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.
" Policy and vision: The case of the Holy Lance found at Antioch ", in John Gillingham & J. C. Holt, War and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays in honour of J. O. Prestwich, Boydell, 1984, pp. 33 – 45
In 1751, with his large volume of prints, Boydell moved to larger premises at 90 Cheapside.
Woollett had already successfully engraved Claude Lorrain's 1663 painting The Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo for Boydell in 1760.
In 1789, at the Royal Academy dinner, the Prince of Wales toasted " an English tradesman who patronizes art better than the Grand Monarque, Alderman Boydell, the Commercial Maecenas ".
Boydell's nephew and business partner, Josiah Boydell, continued his uncle's business for some time at 90 Cheapside, but by 1818, the business was wound up by Jane Boydell, and the assets purchased by Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
* The Victoria County History at Boydell & Brewer
George Dance the Younger's Boydell Shakespeare Gallery | Shakespeare Gallery building at 52 Pall Mall ( built 1788, demolished 1868 – 1869 ), shown in 1851 after its purchase by the British Institution
* Locke, Brian S. Opera and Ideology in Prague: Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 ( Rochester, N. Y .: Boydell & Brewer, 2006 )
Lowry received training at the Royal Academy and worked for a number of engravers, as well as Boydell.
* 17 March-Brian Boydell, composer, professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin ( died 2000 ).
The church was also, at a time, in the possession of the Boidelle ( Boydell ) family.
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