samuel william reynolds was a mezzotint engraver, landscape painter and landscape gardener. reynolds was a popular engraver in both britain and france and there are over 400 examples of his work in the national portrait gallery in london.reynolds was born on 4 july 1773. his father was born in the west indies, the son of a planter, but, being sent in his youth to england for education, settled there permanently, and married reynolds' m…