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Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), By Thomas Sword Good
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood engraving, wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in ''A History of Quadrupeds''. His career began when he was apprenticed to engraver Ralph Beilby in Newcastle upon Tyne. He became a partner in the business and eventually took it over. Apprentices whom Bewick trained include John Anderson (engraver), John Anderson, Luke Clennell, and William Harvey (artist), William Harvey, who in their turn became well known as painters and engravers. Bewick is best known for his ''A History of British Birds'', which is admired today mainly for its wood engravings, especially the small, sharply observed, and often humorous vignettes known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ramsay (painter)
James Ramsay (1789–1854) was a British portrait painter, working in oils. Life Ramsay was born in Sheffield, where his father Robert Ramsay was an artisan and dealer, who took on Francis Chantrey as apprentice in 1797. Robert Ramsay also published some engravings by John Raphael Smith. While still a youth, James Ramsay was painting professionally in the family business, and exhibited at age 17. Ramsay died, after a protracted illness, at 40 Blackett Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on 23 June 1854, aged 68. Exhibitions Ramsay's name first appeared in the catalogue of the Royal Academy exhibition for 1803, when he sent a self-portrait. Three years later he exhibited a portrait of Henry Grattan, and in 1810 one of Towneley family#John Towneley (1731–1813), John Towneley. In 1811 his contributions included portraits of the Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Earl of Moira and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Lord Cochrane, and in 1813 that of Lord Brougham, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
