{{Short description|English engraver (1776–1843)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2012}} right|thumb|200px|1818 portrait of Abraham Raimbach by David Wilkie '''Abraham Raimbach''' (16 February 1776 in London{{snd}}17 January 1843), was an English engraver of Swiss descent.
He was born in Cecil Court in the West End of London.<ref>Weinreb, Ben & Hibbert, Christopher (1983): ''The London Encyclopaedia,'' p. 129.</ref> Educated at Archbishop Tenison's Library School, he was apprenticed to the engraver J. Hall from 1789 to 1796. For nine years, part of his working-time was devoted to the study of drawing in the Royal Academy and to carrying out occasional engravings for the booksellers, whilst his leisure hours were employed in painting portraits in miniature. Having formed an intimacy with Sir David Wilkie, Raimbach in 1812 began to engrave some of Wilkie's best pictures. At his death, he held a gold medal awarded for his ''Village Politicians'' at the Paris Exhibition of 1814. He was elected corresponding member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1835.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Raimbach, Abraham|volume=22|page=861}}</ref>
He is buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon.<ref name=LGO>{{cite web|url=https://londongardenstrust.org/conservation/inventory/site-record/?ID=BAR077|title=St Mary's Churchyard, Hendon|publisher=London Parks and Gardens Trust|access-date=13 September 2012|archive-date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417075159/http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=BAR077|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery> Village Politicians by Abraham Reimbach 1813.jpg|''Village Politicians'' by Abraham Raimbach after David Wilkie Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, Jamaica, 1796.jpg|Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, Jamaica, 1796 </gallery>
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{cite book |author=Dobson, Austin |title="An English Engraver in Paris" ''in'' A paladin of philanthropy and other papers |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dT4OAAAAIAAJ |place=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dT4OAAAAIAAJ/page/n186 173]–193|publisher=Chatto & Windus |year=1899 }} * {{DNB Cite|wstitle=Raimbach, Abraham}}
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