William Elliott

William Elliott or Elliot (1727–1766) was an English engraver. Life Elliott was born at Hampton Court Palace, London, England in 1727. Joseph Strutt, in his Biographical Dictionary of Engravers (1785), said that he was a man "of an amiable and benevolent disposition, and greatly beloved by all who knew him"; that he "excelled in landscape etchings, which he executed with great taste" and that "the freedom of his point, in particular, was admired". He died at his home in Church Street, Soho, in London in 1766.