, 1762 mezzotint by MacArdell after
Francis Hayman. His earliest work appears to be a head of Archbishop
Hugh Boulter in an engraving, altered from one by Brooks of Bishop
Robert Howard. A head of Dr. Birch is stated to have been done by MacArdell in London. A portrait of Bishop
Thomas Secker, engraved by MacArdell, was published in London in 1767, and also a humorous plate, entitled 'Teague's Ramble.' In 1748 he engraved a portrait of John Cartwright, after S. Elmer, and a small portrait of
Charles Bancks, a Swedish painter, for the Chevalier Descazeaux, an eccentric confined in the
Fleet Prison, of whose portrait MacArdell made two etchings. In 1749, he engraved the picture of Lady Boyd, after
Allan Ramsay, and the portrait by
William Hogarth of
Thomas Coram in 1750, the
Duke of Dorset, after Kneller, and 'The Sons of the Duke of Buckingham,' after
Anthony van Dyck. In 1754 he engraved his first plates after
Sir Joshua Reynolds; these plates were the Earl and Countess of Kildare, companion plates, published in Dublin by
Michael Ford, and Lady Charlotte Fitzwilliam, published by Reynolds himself. Subsequently, MacArdell engraved thirty-four more portraits by Reynolds and twenty-five by
Thomas Hudson. He engraved fine portraits of George III, Queen Charlotte, and one of George II on horseback. , 1762 mezzotint after
Sir Joshua Reynolds. After
Peter Paul Rubens MacArdell engraved 'The Family of Sir Balthasar Gerbier,' and 'Rubens with his Wife and Child,' from the picture once at
Blenheim Palace; after Vandyck, 'Time clipping the Wings of Cupid,' 'The Finding of Moses,' and Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart; after
Rembrandt, 'Tobit and the Angel,' 'A Dutch Interior', and 'The Tribute Money.' MacArdell engraved numerous other portraits and subject pictures. Some were from his own drawings, such as those of Charles Blakes, an actor, as 'M. le Medecin,' and
David Garrick as 'Peter Puff.' ==References==