 A leading English mezzotint engraver, he was the first to make use of etched lines to strengthen the work.White's plates number about sixty, the most of them he published himself, and include portraits of William Dobson, bishop George Hooper, Tycho Wing, and Old Parr.White, like his father, drew portraits in pencil on vellum; he also practised in crayons, and latterly took to painting in oils.