of
Morning, from a set Houston's major works are engravings after
Sir Joshua Reynolds, which include portraits of: •
Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, full-length; • Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough, and child; • Mary, Duchess of Ancaster; • Maria, Countess Waldegrave, later Duchess of Gloucester, with her daughter; • Elisabeth, Duchess of Argyll, and her son; •
Lady Selina Hastings; •
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough; •
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; and •
Richard Robinson, archbishop of Armagh. He engraved also: • seven portraits of George III, of which four were after
Zoffany; • six of Queen
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, after
Mary Benwell,
Thomas Frye, Zoffany, and others; • two, after
Antoine Pesne, of
Frederick II, King of Prussia, one full-length, the other on horseback; •
John Manners, Marquess of Granby, on horseback, after
Edward Penny; and full-lengths of •
General Wolfe, after Schaak; •
Pasquale Paoli, after
Pietro Gherardi; •
Voltaire, after Sen; •
Julines Beckford, after
Nathaniel Dance; and •
Catharine Wodhull and master James Sayer, both after Zoffany. A series of portraits by him is in
Richard Rolt's
Lives of the Principal Reformers, London, 1759. Besides portraits, he executed a number of subject plates, such as: • 'The Virgin and Child,' after Raphael; • 'The Temptation of St. Anthony,' after Teniers; • 'The Death of General Wolfe,' after
Edward Penny; • 'The Senses,' five plates after
Francis Hayman; • 'The Sciences,' six plates after
Jacopo Amiconi; • 'Avarice' and 'Innocence,' after
Philip Mercier; • 'The Elements,' four plates, and 'The Times of the Day,' two different sets of four plates, also after Mercier; • the 'Miraculous Onyx Stone;' and • plates of running horses, in which he excelled. Houston's early work included his series of portraits of politicians after
William Hoare, as well as plates after
Rembrandt. For Bowles he engraved religious figures. He painted a few miniatures. ==References==