Background
Alexander was the son of a clergyman, and was descended from Jamisone.
Alexander was the son of a clergyman, and was descended from Jamisone.
He studied in Italy under the mastership of Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari.
In the early part of the 18th century he visited Rome, about 1717, but was not established there, as Heineken says, and etched some plates after Raphael"s frescoes in the Loggie of the Vatican. He dedicated a set of six, dated 1717 and 1718, to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Strutt says that they do Alexander no kind of cr, and terms them slight, loose, and incorrect etchings.
This was based upon a work by his master, Chiari, in Palazzo Barberini.
