George Thomas Doo

George Thomas Doo was a British engraver.

Life

Doo was born near Christ Church in Southwark, London. His teacher was Charles Heath. He went to Paris in 1825. There he studied in the Suisse atelier, and also attended a school run by Antoine-Jean Gros, according to Thompson Cooper; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests his study under Charles-Alexandre Suisse might have been later. He acquired the techniques of drawing from the life, and passed them on to pupils in England.
He took on William Duffield as a non-paying pupil, and William Thomas Roden was an apprentice. Another pupil was Thomas Leeming Grundy. In 1836 Doo was made Engraver in Ordinary to William IV, and later to Queen Victoria. At this period he worked for Francis Moon. Doo became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. He was made a Royal Academician in 1857. Doo died in Sutton, Surrey.

Works

In 1824 he published his first plate, after a portrait of Prince [Frederick, Duke of York and Albany] by Thomas Lawrence.
Doo's better-known works include his 1848 line-engraving The Combat: Woman [Pleading for the Vanquished|The Combat] after William Etty's painting from 1825. He is also known for his engraving of "Knox preaching before the Lords of the Congregation" after David [Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie], "Italian Pilgrims coming in sight of Rome" after Charles [Lock Eastlake], the "Infant Christ" after Raphael and the "Ecce Homo" after Correggio. His 1864 engraving of the "Raising of Lazarus" by Sebastiano del Piombo took him eight years.