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‘J. Farn executed portraits in mezzotint for the European Magazine, including portraits of the politician W. Burton Conyngham, after G. Stuart; the actress Mrs Susanna Maria Cibber, after J. Giles Eccardt; the writer SIr Herbert Croft; and the botanist Th. Martyn and the clergyman J. Towers, both after S. Drummond’ (Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators).

Dyer was born on 12 January 1758. He served as house apothecary to the Bristol Infirmary for 21 years. In February 1814 he married Margaret Susannah Lowe at St Augustine’s, Bristol, and he retired from the infirmary about the same time. He formed a museum of natural history, and a library of books on natural history and medical subjects.

Dyer died at Bristol on 13 July 1833 (Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1833, p. 91).

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