William Radclyffe (20 October 1783 – 29 December 1855) was an English engraver and painter. Born in

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and self-educated, he was apprenticed to a letter engraver and studied drawing under

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with his cousin John Pye. Both planned to move to

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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

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, making prints after David Cox, J. M. W. Turner and

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and illustrating numerous works of

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. He taught James Tibbits Willmore. Radclyffe's son was the painter Charles Walter Radclyffe.

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* 1783 births 1855 deaths English engravers Painters from Birmingham, West Midlands Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub