LOGGAN, DAVID, a line-engraver and designer of considerable eminence, was born at Danzig in 1635. Ho appears to have first learnt his art from Simon de Pas in Denmark, and to have worked subsequently with Hondius in Holland. He came to England during the Commonwealth, and spent some time in engraving heads in London. But his first work of consequence in this country was a act of plates of the colleges of Oxford—' Oxonia llluatrata,' for the sale. of which he bad fifteen years' privilege ; be executed afterwards a similar series of the colleges of Cambridge. He also engraved on eleven folio plates 'Ilabitus Academicoruni Oxonian h Doctore ad Serviantem.' Loggan is himself entered on the books of the Uni versity ; in the matriculation registry there is the following entry " David Loggan Gedanensie, Universitate Oxon. Chalcographas, July 9, 1672." He married Mrs. Jordan, of a good family, near 'Witney, Oxford shire, by whom he had a son, who became a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. lie died at his house in Leicester-fields in 1693. Loggan engraved many portraits of illustrious persons in the time of Charles II., many of the drawings of which were executed in lead
by himself from the life—as George, Prince of Denmark; the Duke of Albemarle; the Earl of Clarendon ; the Earl of Argyll ; the Duke of Ormond ; the Lord Keeper Guildford ; Archbishop Saucroft ; the Bishops Mew, Seth Ward, and Pearson; and many others. There are prints also by Loggan of Archbishops Usher and Boyle, and of Bishops Sprat of Rochester, Lake of Chichester, Crew of Durham, Compton of Loudon, Gunning of Ely, Reynolds of Norwich, and Lloyd of St- Asaph. He engraved also three portraits of Charles IL, in one of which the king is leaning his band ou Archbishop Sheldon ; James, duke of York ; the Duke of Monmouth; the Queens Catherine and Henrietta Maria ; Pope Innocent XI.; the Earl of Derby, Sir Edward Coke, Sir John Chardin, Thomas Barlow, Titus Oates, and many others, which are enumerated by Vertue.
Loggan had the following assistants — A. Blooteling, G. Valck, Vanderbanck, and Peter Williamson; the first two came from Holland with Loggan.