Lupton, Thomas Goff

1791

1873

Thomas Lupton, one of the persons tentatively identified in Clint’s picture of a scene from “A New Way to Pay Old Debts”, was born in Clerkenwell, London, on 3 September 1791, the son of the goldsmith William Lupton and his wife Mary. He received tuition from George Clint and Samuel W. Reynolds. Between 1811 and 1820 he exhibited some crayon portraits at the Royal Academy. Lupton developed the method of using steel for mezzotint engravings. He published a number of such engravings in collections. He was sometime President of the Artists’ Annuity Fund. He died at No 4, Keppel Street, Russell Square, on 18 May 1873.