Identifier: dictionaryofpain02brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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owledge by steady work out-of-doors, or by sketching events which took place witha view of using them for illustrations. He leftLandells in 1846, starting on his own account, andworked as a book illustrator for Vizetelly. Hisfirst great success was in illustrating Evangeline,and after that he was sent up the Rhine th.at hemight make drawings for Hyperion, and for abook on the famous river itself From that timeto 1859 he illustrated many of the most notableworks of the day, especially of poetry, but atlength he determined to give up black and whitework and take to more congenial labour in colour.His first work in the Royal Academy representeda farm near Arundel, and was hung in 1859 ; inthe following year he was an Associate of the OldWater-Colour Society, and attained full rank as amember two years afterwards. The death of hisfather in 1861 was not altogether a loss to Foster,for a confusion having arisen between his nameand that of his parent an obituary account of the < u k^ <
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