Strange

Strange, SIR ROBERT (1721-92), line-engraver, was born in the mainland of Orkney. He took part in the Jacobite rising of 1745, and was obliged to withdraw to France, where he studied uuder Le Bas at Paris. In 1750 he returned to England, and soon afterwards settled in London. During a visit to the Continent in 1760-64 he was received with high honour by the Italian academies.