(1744/45 - 1840)
Little is known of the life of line engraver Thomas Bragg, who specialised in small portrait engravings. In 1906 a portrait of Bragg by John Hoppner was lent to an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Bragg died at 22 Denmark Street, Camberwell, on 5 July 1840, aged 95. A few days later, an inquest was held, after it was suggested that Bragg had been poisoned. The jury’s verdict was that: ‘the deceased died of paralysis, arising from the natural rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, combined with the debilitating effects produced by a mortified wound in the back and loins.’ Bragg’s son was mentioned during the inquest.
