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means of bringing him to London. I\Ir. Scholey 

 did not fail to mark the merit of Clennell's designs 

 and plates, and in 1804, on the expiration of the 

 seven years, for which he had been apprenticed 

 to Bewick, sent for him to execute commissions for 

 his firm. After settling in London the artist mar- 

 ried a daughter of Charles Warren, the copper- 

 plate engraver. His marriage was the means of 

 introducing him to the society of Raimbach, Finden, 

 and other talented men, who vied with each other 

 in producing the delicate embellishments for books 

 published by Sharpe, Du Rovory, and others at 

 the beginning of the century ; and doubtless 

 this alliance with Miss Warren had the effect 

 of making him many useful friends. 



He soon succeeded as an engraver; in 1806 he 

 was awarded the Gold Palette of the Society of 

 Arts for an engraving on wood of a battle 

 subject. About the same time he executed six- 

 teen wood engravings from designs by Thurston 

 to illustrate James Beattie's Minsti-e!, which was 

 published by Davison, of Alnwick, in Northumber- 

 land, in 1807 : from which it appears that he left 

 a reputation behind him when he left the north 

 country, and that his success in London was not 

 lost upon his friends near home. He also did 

 some of the pictures in W. M. Craig's Scriptnre 

 Illustrated, which was published at this time. In 



