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James Baylis Allen
James Baylis Allen (1803–1876) was a British engraver. Allen, together with Edward and William Radclyffe and the Willmores, belonged to a school of landscape-engravers which arose in Birmingham, where there were numerous engravers working on iron and steel manufactures. Biography Allen was born in Birmingham, 18 April 1803, the son of a button-manufacturer. As a boy he followed his father's business; then about age 15 he was articled to Josiah Allen, an elder brother and general engraver in Birmingham. Three years later he began his artistic training by attending the drawing classes of John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines. In 1824 Allen went to London, and found employment in the studio of the Findens, for whose ''Royal Gallery of British Art'' he engraved at a later period "Trent in the Tyrol", after Augustus Wall Callcott. Allen died after a long illness at Camden Town on the 10th January 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. The grave (no.144) no lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Radclyffe
William Radclyffe (20 October 1783 – 29 December 1855) was an English engraver and painter. Born in Birmingham and self-educated, he was apprenticed to a letter engraver and studied drawing under Joseph Barber with his cousin John Pye. Both planned to move to London when their apprenticeships were complete in 1801, but Radclyffe remained in Birmingham for financial reasons and set up as an engraver and copperplate printer. Radclyffe became well known as an engraver of landscapes, making prints after David Cox, J. M. W. Turner and Peter De Wint and illustrating numerous works of travel literature. He taught James Tibbits Willmore. Radclyffe's son was the painter Charles Walter Radclyffe Charles Walter Radclyffe (17 January 1817 – 2 February 1903) was a British Watercolor painting, watercolourist, printmaker and lithographer. The son of artist William Radclyffe (1783–1855), he was elected into the Royal Birmingham Society o .... References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
