(1749 - 1806)
Engraver Francis Chesham exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1777-78, when living on Broad Street, Soho. He worked for several publishers specialising in landscape views and also engraved portraits after Charles Catton the elder for ‘The English Peerage’ (1790); after Robert Dodd for John Boydell’s ‘Admiral Parker's Victory’ (1782) and two engravings after George Robertson's views of the iron works in Coalbrookdale. When Chesham exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 he gave his address as ‘Mr Wood’s, Richmond Buildings’. Wood was an attorney in Soho, who specialised in bankrupts. The engraver may also be the Francis Chesham of Pall Mall and Walworth Terrace, described as a ‘Printseller, Dealer and Chapman’, who was bankrupt in 1790.
