Alexander Bannerman (ca. 1730, active through 1792)

• Was a Scottish engraver.
• He may been a pupil of Richard Cooper senior or of Cooper's pupil, Andrew Bell.

• He advertised A Set of Edinburgh Habits in six copper plates in the Caledonian Mercury on 11 May 1756.

• He engraved some plates for Alderman Boydell, ‘Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's Dream,’ after Ribera; the ‘Death of St. Joseph,’ after Velasquez; and ‘Dancing Children,’ after Le Maire.

• For Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters (London 1765) he also engraved several portraits.

• In 1766 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists.

• In 1770 he is known to have been living in Cambridge. 

• In Nagler's dictionary (ed. 1878) is a long list of his works; there are good specimens in the print room of the British Museum.

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