Vaughan was born circa 1600. The
National Portrait Gallery states that Vaughan was a "versatile line engraver, producing portraits, maps, bookplates, series of prints and the occasional broadsheet." He engraved the
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. Vaughan was an acquaintance of
Thomas Vaughan. Robert was a supporter of the
Royalists during the
English Civil War. He was indicted in 1651 for publishing a print of
King Charles I, who had recently been executed. Vaughan died circa 1660. ==References==