William Miller (engraver)
William Miller (born May 28, 1796 in Edinburgh , † January 10, 1882 in Sheffield ) was a Scottish engraver , famous for his interpretations of the works of well-known painters such as William Turner and Clarkson Stanfield .
Life
Miller studied in London and then returned to Edinburgh. There he made engravings for Sir George Harvey and other landscape painters. His main work, however, includes the implementation of the work of William Turner, who greatly appreciated his masterly engravings.
Miller was involved in the book illustrations of England and Wales (1827-1838), The Revers of France (1833-1835), Roger's Poems (1834), and to a large extent in The Prose and Poetical Works by Sir Walter Scott (1834). For The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland (1826) he contributed some excellent engravings after Thomson and Turner. The larger-format engravings based on Turner's models include the titles The Grand Canal, Venice , The Rhine , The Bell Rock , The Tower of London and The Shepherd .
Towards the end of his life, Miller gave up engraving and devoted himself to watercolor painting . He exhibited his work at the Royal Scottish Academy , of which he was an honorary member. During this time he made a final series of vignettes for Myles Birket Foster , a Quaker like himself .
literature
- Miller, William . [engraver] . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 18 : Medal - Mumps . London 1911, p. 465 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Miller, William . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 564 .
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| SURNAME | Miller, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1882 |
| Place of death | Sheffield |