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James Walker (engraver)
James Walker (1748–1808?) was a British mezzotint engraver.
==Life==
The son of a captain in the merchant navy, Walker became a pupil of Valentine Green.
In 1784 he went to St. Petersburg, appointed engraver to the Empress Catherine II. He remained in Russia till 1802, engraving portraits of the imperial family and of the Russian aristocracy, as well as pictures by Old Masters in the imperial collection. Walker's appointment as court engraver was renewed by the Emperor Alexander I, and he was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He returned to England with a pension in 1802.〔
Walker is said to have died about 1808.〔
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