EARLOM, RICHARD (1742-1822), English mezzotint en graver, was born and died in London. In 1765 he was employed by Alderman Boydell, then one of the most liberal promoters of the fine arts, to make a series of drawings from the pictures at Houghton Hall ; and these he afterwards engraved in mezzotint. His most perfect works as engraver are perhaps the fruit and Hower pieces after the Dutch artists Van Os and Van Huysum. Earlom executed a series of 200 facsimiles of the drawings and sketches of Claude Lorraine, which was published in three vols., under the title of Liber veritatis