Background
He was born on October 4, 1800 on the island of St. Thomas, West Indies (now United States), of French parents. The family came to the United States in 1807 and settled in New York City.
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A Memoir of Rev. Henry Martyn
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John Francis Eugene Prud'Homme
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About 1814 the boy John Francis was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Thomas Gimbrede, to learn the art of engraving.
Career
By the time he was twenty-one, Prud'homme was signing engravings of his own. His first work was as a portrait engraver, in the stipple manner, but to extend his market he was soon doing general illustrative engravings. In 1831 when James Herring started The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Prud'homme engraved a number of plates for the work.
Some of his best engravings were done for annuals and other books during the period 1839-52. Catalogues of engravings of his period list numerous plates by him, among them portraits of Philander Chase, Fisher Ames, Fredrika Bremer, Horatio Nelson, and George Washington, others.
From 1834 to 1853 Prud'homme was curator of the National Academy of Design and was for a time instructor in a life class there. From 1852 to 1869 he was employed by a banknote engraving firm in New York as designer and engraver of decorative work.
After some years of failing health, he died at his home in Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Achievements
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John Francis Eugene Prud'Homme was considered excellent both as a draftsman and as an engraver. He engraved the title-page and frontispiece for Maria Edgeworth's Novels and Tales; "St. Patrick's Cathedral", designed as an advertisement for the Douai Bible; "The Declaration of Independence, " from the work of John Trumbull, and other famous works. During nearly 20 years he served with distinction in bureau of engraving and printing in Washington as a designer of the ornamentation of bank notes and securities.
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A Memoir of Rev. Henry Martyn
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A Memoir of Rev. Henry Martyn
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He had a daughter.
