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William Holl The Elder
William Holl the Elder (1771 – 1 December 1838) was a British engraver, thought to be of German background, and a political radical. Life Holl was a pupil of Benjamin Smith (engraver), Benjamin Smith the engraver, and worked in the stipple engraving, stipple method. He was noted as an exponent of "chalk manner" engraving, based on the simulation of chalk lines on paper. While with Smith, he had Thomas Uwins as unwilling pupil. A progressive in politics, Holl at the time of the Spa Fields riots in December 1816 took the risk of concealing James Watson, son of James Watson (1766–1838) the radical leader, and aiding his departure for the USA. He was a pioneer in using steel plates for banknotes, Holl lived in Bayham Street, Camden Town. He died in London, 1 December 1838. Works Holl was noted for his numerous engraved portraits, some being for Edmund Lodge's ''Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain''. He was employed in engraving Henry Corbould's drawings of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Holl Sr Drawing
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. The museum was established in 1753, largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1771 Births
Events January– March * January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule. * January 9 – Emperor Go-Momozono accedes to the throne of Japan, following his aunt's abdication. * February 12 – Upon the death of Adolf Frederick, he is succeeded as King of Sweden by his son Gustav III. At the time, however, Gustav is unaware of this, since he is abroad in Paris. The news of his father's death reaches him about a month later. * March – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon raises a militia, to put down the long-running uprising of backcountry militias against North Carolina's colonial government. * March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County (named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon) from portions of Cumberland, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Holl
Francis Holl (23 March 1815 – 14 January 1884), was an English engraver. Life He was born 23 March 1815 in Camden Town, London, the fourth son of the prominent engraver William Holl the Elder (c.1771-1838), to whom he was apprenticed. The engraver William Holl the Younger was his brother. He was both successful and fashionable, producing work for book and print publishers. He spent 25 years engraving Queen Victoria's pictures during which period he executed commissions of other royal portraits. Often working from paintings by fashionable artists, he exhibited 20 engravings at the Royal Academy between 1856 and 1883, and was elected an associate engraver in 1883. He lived at 30 Gloucester Road, Regent's Park for many years, before moving to Elm House, Milford, Surrey, in about 1879. He died on 14 January 1884, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. The painter Frank Holl Francis Montague Holl (London 4 July 1845 – 31 July 1888 London) was an English painter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Holl The Younger
William Holl the Younger (February 1807 in Plaistow, Essex – 30 January 1871) was a British portrait and figure engraver, noted for his book illustrations. Life The eldest of four sons of William Holl the Elder (1771–1838), he was taught engraving by his father – at first stipple and later line on steel. The first portrait engraving produced on his own was that of Thomas Cranmer in May 1829 for inclusion in Edmund Lodge's ''Portraits of Illustrious Personages''. He contributed further work to this publication between 1829 and 1835 after artists such as van Loo, Holbein, Van Dyck, Lely, Godfrey Kneller and Daniel Mytens. He was a founder member of the ''Chalcographic Society'' started by several notable engravers in 1830. Holl also produced portraits for William Jerdan's ''National Portrait Gallery'' (1830–34) and for the 1834 ''Chambers's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen''. Working with his brother Francis Holl (1815–84), he provided engraved i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Hunnisett
Basil Hunnisett MA PhD FRSA FLA (5 July 1923 – 15 October 2013) was an English librarian, academic, lecturer and author specialising in steel engraving, historical bibliography, history of libraries and fine art librarianship. He wrote three books on steel engraving and was among the first to cover the subject in detail. He also contributed to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', the ''Grove Dictionary of Art'' and several specialist arts magazines. Early life and education Hunnisett was educated at Lewes County Grammar School, Lewes, East Sussex from 1934 to 1939. His first job was as assistant librarian at Lewes Public Library from 1939 to 1947. This included four and a half years war service in the Royal Air Force, mostly in India from 1942. He was demobbed in April 1947 with the rank of corporal. He became a student and studied at the Brighton School of Librarianship from January to December 1948. In later life he received a Master of Arts, London University ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Fry
William Thomas Fry (1789–1843) was a British engraver. He occasionally exhibited his engravings at the Suffolk Street exhibition. Works Fry worked chiefly in stipple. He engraved four portraits for Fisher, Son, & Co.'s ''National Portrait Gallery'': *Princess Charlotte, and the Earl of Liverpool, after Sir T. Lawrence; *Admiral Earl Howe, after Gainsborough Dupont; and * the Rev. Samuel Lee, after Richard Evans. He also engraved portraits, after J. Jackson, R.A., including Robert Hills, the animal painter, John Scott the engraver, and others. For Jones's ''National Gallery'' he executed eleven engravings. External links * , an engraving of a painting by Edward Francis Burney with poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon published in the Forget Me Not annual for 1824. * , an engraving of a painting by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret, with poetical accompaniment by Letitia Elizabeth Landon for Friendship's Offering annual for 1826. * , engraving of an image drawn by Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Warren (engraver)
Charles Turner Warren (4 June 1762 – 21 April 1823) was a British engraver. Life and work Charles Turner Warren was born in London, and of his early career the only facts recorded are that he married at the age of eighteen, and was at one time engaged in engraving on metal for calico printing. He enjoyed a great reputation as an engraver of small book-illustrations during the last 20 years of his life. His engraved plates of Robert Smirke in the English editions of the '' Arabian Nights'' (1802), ''Gil Blas'' (1809), and ''Don Quixote'' (1818), were very successful. His ''Broken Jar'' (after David Wilkie), one of the illustrations to poet Peter Coxe's ''Social Day'', was considered a masterpiece of its kind. Other publications to which he contributed were Kearsley's edition of ''The Plays of William Shakespeare'', Du Roveray's edition of ''The Poetical Works'' of Alexander Pope, ''Walker's British Classics'', John Sharpe's ''Classics'', Suttaby's ''Poets'', and ''Physiogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Westall
Richard Westall (2 January 1765 – 4 December 1836) was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron. He was also Queen Victoria's drawing master. Biography Westall was the more successful of two half-brothers (both sons of a Benjamin Westall, from Norwich) who both became painters. His younger half-brother was William Westall (1781–1850), a much-travelled landscape painter. Born on 2 January 1765 in Reepham near Norwich (where he was baptised at All Saints on 13 January in the same year), Richard Westall moved to London after the death of his mother and the bankruptcy of his father in 1772. Westall was apprenticed to a heraldic silver engraver in 1779, where he was encouraged to become a painter by John Alefounder; he then began studying at the Royal Academy School of Arts from 10 December 1785. He exhibited at the Academy regularly between 1784 and 1836, became an Associate in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Corbould
Henry Corbould (1787–1844) was an English artist. Life The third son of Richard Corbould, he was born in London. He studied painting with his father, and was at an early age admitted as a student of the Royal Academy, under Fuseli, where he gained the silver medal for a study from the life. While at the Academy he made the friendship of Flaxman, Stothard, West, Chantrey, and Westmacott. He several times sat as a model to West in whose picture of 'Christ Rejected' his head was painted for that of St. John; as also in that of 'Christ Healing the Sick in the Temple,' in the National Gallery. In 1808 he exhibited a painting of 'Coriolanus'; in the following year 'The Parting of Hector and Andromache,' and 'Thetis comforting Achilles,' &c.; but his name has been comparatively little before the public except as a designer for books, his time having been almost entirely occupied in making drawings from ancient marbles in the possession of various English noblemen. Those of the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Smith (engraver)
Benjamin Smith (1754–1833) was a British engraver, printseller and publisher, active from 1786 to 1833. He was born c. 1754 in London. He worked mainly in dot or stipple engraving, producing portraits, illustrations, and allegorical and biblical subjects after prominent artists of the day. Biography Smith studied stippling techniques under Francesco Bartolozzi, one of the most famous and sought after engravers of the 18th Century. During his career Smith engraved many fine plates after the designs of contemporary masters such as William Hogarth, William Beechey and George Romney (painter), George Romney. He also created portrait engravings of such noteworthy individuals as Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Marquis Cornwallis and George III. Benjamin Smith, one of the foremost engravers of London, was for some years largely employed by John Boydell, who commissioned him to engrave many of the most important plates for his Shakespeare Gallery and for his Poetical Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Lodge
Edmund Lodge, KH (1756–1839), herald, was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a compiler of short biographies. Life and career Lodge was born in Poland Street, London on 13 June 1756, the son of Edmund Lodge, rector of Carshalton, Surrey and his wife, Mary Garrard, daughter of Richard Garrard of Carshalton. Little is known of his education, but he briefly held a cornet's commission in the army, which he resigned in 1773. In 1782 he became Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms. He subsequently became Lancaster Herald of Arms in Ordinary, Norroy King of Arms, and Clarenceux King of Arms, in other words second in command of the college. In 1832, he was appointed Knight of the Hanoverian Royal Guelphic Order, but was not subsequently made a knight bachelor to entitle him to the prefix ''Sir'', which often came with appointments to that order. He married Jane-Anne-Elizabeth Field (died May 1820) on 27 April 1808 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
