Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Burghers, Michael
BURGHERS, MICHAEL (d. 1727), a Dutch engraver and draughtman, came to England when young, and settled at Oxford. He engraved the print in the ‘University Almanac’ for 1676, and most of those which followed it up to 1720. He made many small views of buildings at Queen's College and Christ Church. He also engraved the following portraits: William Sommer, the antiquary; Francis Junius, after A. van Dyck; John Barefoot, letter-doctor to the university, 1681; head of James II in an almanac, 1686; William Penderill of Boscobel in Salop; Robert Eglesfield, founder of Queen's College; Sir W. Read, chemical physician; and the Visage of Christ, engraved in the manner of Claude Mellan. In mezzotinto Burghers executed a portrait of Anthony à Wood, the antiquary. On several of his plates he added to his name ‘Academiæ Oxon. chalcographis,’ but sometimes marked them with the initials M.B. only. He died, according to Hearne’s ‘Reliquiæ,’ on 10 Jan. 1726-7.
[Redgraves Dictionary of Artists (1878); MS. notes in British Museum]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.43
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
| Page | Col. | Line | |
| 333 | ii | 4 | Burghers, Michael: for (d. 1727) read (1653?-1727) |
| 5-6 | for came to England . . . Oxford read born at Amsterdam about 1653, and settled at Oxford in 1673 | ||
| 9 | after 1720 insert He succeeded David Loggan [q. v.] as 'sculptor' to the university in 1692 | ||
| 14 | for John Barefoot, letter-doctor read Richard Barefoot, letter-carrier |