Samuel Dixon

Samuel Dixon (died 1769) was an Irish artist, known for his water colour paintings and his depictions of flowers and birds in (embossed ). Dixon's father was Thomas Dixon, a hosier, of Cork Hill. His brother John Dixon, was a mezzotint engraver. In 1748, he was listed as a "picture dealer and painter" in Capel Street, Dublin, Ireland. Dixon produced sets of twelve hand-coloured basso-relievo prints. He advertised the first, featuring floral arrangements, in Faulkner's Dublin Journal on 26 April 1748. The next year he followed these with a set of designs copied from volumes 1–4 of George Edward's Natural History of Uncommon Birds (1743–1751).