Career
Evelyn, in his ‘Sculptura’ (1662), speaks of him as ‘J. Fellian, disciple of Mr. Faithorne, who is a hopeful young manitoba’ He died early, about 1680, before these hopes could be realised. Very few of his engravings exist, notably a portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, published by P. Stent in 1658, a good work.
A portrait of his master, Faithorne, from a drawing by himself.
A copy of J. Payne"s portrait of Paracelsus. ‘Doctor Michael,’ after Guido Reni.
And the frontispiece to P. Heylyn"s ‘Cosmography,’ published in 1669. Walpole was of opinion that Faithorne"s engraving of ‘Christ with a Globe,’ from a picture attributed to Raphael, was completed by Fillian.