Abraham, a distinguished line-engraver, was a Swiss by descent, and was born in London in 1776. His eminence in art was attained by assiduous industry. Becoming an apprentice to Hall the engraver in 1789, he continued in that capacity till 1796, engraving under his master's eye all day, and training his hand in sketching at night. He then had recourse to various means of improvement. Part of his working-time was devoted to the study of drawing in the Royal Academy; another part was occupied in executing occasional engravings for the booksellers; his leisure hours were employed in eking out his scanty income by painting portraits in miniature. It was not until he had laboured in this manner for about nine years, that he received a sufficient number of commissions in engraving to engage all his efforts. Raimbach had not been long established in his profession when he formed an intimacy with Sir David Wilkie, and the result was, that in 1812 he began to engrave some of that master's best pictures. With such great originals as models, his prints attained the highest excellence. "The Village Politicians," "The Rent-Day," "The Cut Finger," "Blind-Man's Buff," "The Errand-Boy," "Distrainting for Rent," "The Parish Beadle," and "The Spanish Mother and Child," although at first they did not sell so well as was expected, raised him in the estimation of connoisseurs. The French especially held him in great honour. At the time of his death, in 1843, he held a gold medal which had been awarded to him for his "Village Politicians," at the Paris Exhibition of 1814, and the title of Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, which had been bestowed upon him in 1835. The autobiography of Raimbach was edited by his son, for private circulation, under the title of Memoirs and Recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, including a Memoir of Sir D. Wilkie, R.A.