HIXON, Robert Joseph (1766-1834) — London
Engraver & copperplate printer; print-seller. His trade-card in BM specifically notes “maps, charts, plans &c. engrav’d”. Chiefly known for decorative prints after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, George Moutard Woodward, etc., and satires after Isaac Cruikshank, Thomas Rowlandson (see BME 2011), etc. Also known for at least one London scene, drawn and engraved by himself.
Born 20 Jul 1766 and baptised at St. Martin in the Fields, London, 10 Aug 1766 — the son of William Hixon (1734?-1802) and his wife Martha, née Bristow (1740?-1811), who had married in 1761. Belonging to a family much engaged in the printing trades, he was apprenticed without fee (Stationers) as the son of William Hixon, copperplate printer of Cecil Street, Strand, to the bookbinder Thomas Carr 4 May 1784. Became a freemason, joining the Bedford Lodge 6 Aug 1788. Already a widower, he married (2) Maria Terney(?) (1781-1862) at St. Clement Danes 23 Dec 1799. An 1827 Sun Fire Office insurance policy in LMA evidences Hixon insuring sixteen rented properties in Whitechapel in his name. Further policies insure the Regent’s Quadrant premises 1831-1833, noting a shared occupation with a Mr Ferraro, carver & gilder, 1831-1832, and with a trunk-maker and an umbrella-maker in 1833. He died 25 Aug 1834 and was buried at St. Paul Covent Garden 29 Aug 1834. Will in NA proved 22 Sep 1834 — PROB 11/1836/157. His widow took out insurance at 45 Leicester Square 15 Apr 1835, where she was living with sons James Bristow Hixon (1802-1860), picture dealer, and William James Hixon (1801?-1871).
13 Brydges Street, Covent Garden — 1791-1794
16 Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane — 1799
355 Strand, two doors from Exeter Exchange — 1799-1810
440 Strand — 1809-1817
1 St. Alban’s Terrace, Lambeth (home) — 1827
67 Regent’s Quadrant, Regent Street — 1831-1834
Alexander. BBTI. BM. BNA. EWP. Fincham. LHD. LMA. Maxted. McKenzie. NA.