William james bennett artist biography
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William James Bennett
British artist (–)
William James Bennett (−), was a British-born painter and engraver, active in the United States from He was a founder member of the "Associated Artists in Watercolour" in [1] and twelve years later was elected an Associate of the Water-Colour Society.[2]
Life
[edit]Bennett was born in London in , and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He was a pupil of Westall, and developed an interest in landscape painting. At the age of eighteen he obtained an appointment connected with the medical staff of the army, and was sent with the military to Egypt in He sketched views in Egypt and, on his return journey to Britain, in Malta.[3] Still attached to the military hospital, he was sent to the Mediterranean a second time, under Sir James Craig. He visited several parts of Italy in the course of duty, and obtained leave of absence to visit Florence, Naples, and Rome.[3]
He went to the United States a
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William James Bennett print collection
William James Bennett was born in England in ca. , and was educated in painting, sculpture, and engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was an active exhibitor of watercolors in London in the years between and , and produced aquatint plates for many illustrated books. He immigrated to the United States in , where his reputation as a watercolorist ensured his election the next year as associate member of the National Academy of Design. Bennett often exhibited at the National Academy, and from to he was named Keeper, a teaching and administrative brev which allowed him to live in the NAD's building.
In addition to his skill with watercolors, Bennett was also a mästare of aquatint, and made prints after many of his own paintings. His first set of commissioned prints in New York, which were published as Megarey's Street Views in the City of New-York; are all scenes of Manhattan which he rendered first in watercolor, then as aquatints.
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William James Bennett
William James Bennett, was a British-born painter and engraver, active in the United States from He was a founder member of the "Associated Artists in Watercolour" in and twelve years later was elected an Associate of the Water-Colour Society.
Bennett was born in London in , and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He was a pupil of Westall, and developed an interest in landscape painting. At the age of eighteen he obtained an appointment connected with the medical staff of the army, and was sent with the military to Egypt in He sketched views in Egypt and, on his return journey to Britain, in Malta. Still attached to the military hospital, he was sent to the Mediterranean a second time, under Sir James Craig. He visited several parts of Italy in the course of duty, and obtained leave of absence to visit Florence, Naples, and Rome.
He went to the United States around , and became a member of the National Academy of Design at New York in , where he exhibited