Biography

English printmaker. Taught by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, he worked in mezzotint, etching and occasionally stipple. His mezzotints of flowers and still-lifes after the Dutch artists Van Os and Jan van Huysum are also found printed in colours or coloured by hand.

Earlom's most influential prints were a set of outline etchings combined with mezzotint of the volume, then belonging to the Dukes of Devonshire, of Claude's drawings of his own landscape paintings (British Museum, London). The prints were published in 1777 by John Boydell in two volumes under the title of Liber veritatis.