Background
He was born in Cow Lane (later Greek Street), Dublin, around 1729.
He was born in Cow Lane (later Greek Street), Dublin, around 1729.
He learnt mezzotint-engraving from John Brooks. When Brooks moved to London about 1746, MacArdell and other pupils followed. He opened a print shop at the Golden Head in Covent Garden, where in 1753 he published six views of Dublin.
MacArdell died on 2 June 1765, in his fifty-seventh year, and was buried in the churchyard at Hampstead, where a stone bore an inscription to his memory.