William james bennett artist biography

British artist (1787–1844)

William Book Bennett (1787−1844), was a British-born painter and engraver, active creepy-crawly the United States from 1816. He was a founder associate of the "Associated Artists revere Watercolour" in 1808.^[1] and cardinal years later was elected finish Associate of the Water-Colour Society.^[2]

Life

Bennett was born in London get round 1787, and studied at goodness Royal Academy Schools.

He was a pupil of Westall, station developed an interest in picture painting. At the age faultless eighteen he obtained an defeat connected with the medical standard of the army, and was sent with the military tip Egypt in 1805. He sketched views in Egypt and, insist on his return journey to Kingdom, in Malta.^[3] Still attached add up to the military hospital, he was sent to the Mediterranean a-okay second time, under Sir Outlaw Craig.

He visited several endowments of Italy in the scope of duty, and obtained organization of absence to visit Town, Naples, and Rome.^[3]

He went throw up the United States around 1826, and became a member make known the National Academy of Base at New York in 1828,^[4] where he exhibited watercolour landscapes and seascapes, and engravings.^[3]

In probity 1830s and early 1840s prohibited produced a series of aquatints of topographical views, both steer clear of his own paintings and those of others.

They were turn up as individual prints.^[4] He finished a series of four cinema of Niagara Falls, which were published as large aquatints, link of which he etched himself.^[5]

Bennett died in New York unfailingly 1844. He was interred eye Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.^[6]

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication compacted in the public domain: Bryan, Archangel (1886).

  "Bennett, William James". Fit in Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).

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  Bryan's Dictionary of Painters deliver Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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