William Thomas Fry

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Found on IGI using parents search.
There was a famous engraver of this name, born circa 1789, which is about right. Could be him?

Relatively little is known of the portrait and figure engraver William Thomas Fry. Between 1829 and 1835, he engraved eight portraits for the second edition of Edmond Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, after Holbein, Kneller and others, notably King Henry V, Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Isaac Newton. He contributed four plates to Fisher's National Portrait Gallery (1830-34) and eleven to Jones's National Gallery (1836). His plates continued to be used in publications long after his death, the Imperial Dictionary (1861) carrying his portraits of Turgot and Halley (see below). Fry was one of the earliest engravers to experiment with steel plates, first with those produced by J. Perkins from early in 1820 and, then, with more success, those made by C. Warren. With the latter, he engraved the portrait of the Rev. William Naylor for the Methodist Magazine, February 1822 and further portraits for the Evangelical Magazine, 1823-24. In the Forget Me Not, 1825, he engraved two of the first steel plates to be used in an annual.

A William Thomas Fry married a Elizabeth Poulter 20 SEP 1814 at Old Church, Saint Pancras, London. Might be him.