Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bryer, Henry

by Louis Alexander Fagan

BRYER, HENRY (d. 1799), engraver, was a pupil of William Wynne Ryland, in partnership with whom he for some years carried on an extensive printselling business in Cornhill; but, owing chiefly to Ryland’s extravagance, the firm became bankrupt. In 1762 Bryer gained the Society of Arts premium for a large plate representing ‘Mars and Venus discovered by Vulcan.’ He exhibited at the Society of Artists between 1765 and 1774, and engraved several plates after Angelica Kauffmann. In 1778, when living in St. Martin’s Lane, Bryer published ‘Aglaia bound by Cupid,’ from the original picture by Angelica Kauffmann.

[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists (1878); MS. notes in British Museum.]

L. F.