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Samuel Williams (23 February 1788 – 19 September 1853) was a British draughtsman and
From his own designs, Williams produced the illustrations to:
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wood-engraver
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively lo ...
.
Life
Williams was born atColchester
Colchester ( ) is a city in northeastern Essex, England. It is the second-largest settlement in the county, with a population of 130,245 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census. The demonym is ''Colcestrian''.
Colchester occupies the ...
, on 23 February 1788. He was apprenticed to the Colchester printer J. Marsden, but taught himself to draw and engrave on wood. Headopted printmaking as his profession, and became known as a specialist in landscapes. He established himself first in Colchester, and then settled in London in 1819.
In the early part of his life, Williams also painted miniatures, and a few oil pictures. Having a facility in design, he used his own drawings for a high proportion of his prints. His first patron was Benjamin Crosby the publisher, for whom he illustrated a work on natural history in 1810.
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in ...
in 1819. John Orrin Smith and George Baxter were his pupils.
Williams died on 19 September 1853.
Works
From his own designs, Williams produced the illustrations to:
* Charles Whittingham
Charles Whittingham (16 June 1767 – 5 January 1840) was an English printer.
Biography
He was born at Caludon or Calledon, Warwickshire, the son of a farmer, and was apprenticed to a Coventry printer and bookseller. In 1789 he set up a smal ...
's edition of ''Robinson Crusoe'', 1822;
* Mary Trimmer, ''Natural History'', 1823–4;
* ''The British Stage'', 1826 and following years;
* Scott
Scott may refer to:
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* Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Sas ...
's Bible, 1833–4;
* ''The Olio'', a weekly magazine, 1828–33;
* William Hone
William Hone (3 June 1780 – 8 November 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.
Biography
Hon ...
, ''Every-Day Book'', 1825–7;
* Charlotte Guest, ''Mabinogion
The ''Mabinogion'' () is a collection of the earliest Welsh prose stories, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created –1410, as well as a few earlier frag ...
'', 1838;
* James Thomson, ''The Seasons'', 1841;
* Prideaux John Selby
Prideaux John Selby FRSE Linnean Society, FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist.
Life
Selby was born in Bondgate Street in Alnwick in Northumberland, the eldest son of George ...
, ''A History of British Forest Trees Indigenous and Introduced'', 1842; and
* Thomas Miller, ''Pictures of Country Life'', 1847.
Cuts from the designs of others are in:
*Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (30 December 1792 – 2 May 1836) was an English poet and writer, known as translator of Torquato Tasso.
Life
The eldest son of John Wiffen, an ironmonger, by his wife Elizabeth Pattison, both from Quaker backgrounds, he w ...
's edition of Tasso's ''Jerusalem Delivered
''Jerusalem Delivered'', also known as ''The Liberation of Jerusalem'' ( ; ), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, l ...
'', 1823;
*John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: ''Memoirs of the Life of Sir ...
, ''Spanish Ballads'', 1840;
*the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels
The Waverley novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe.
Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the se ...
, 1842;
*William Scrope
William Scrope (1772–1852) was an English sportsman and amateur artist, known as a writer on sports.
Life
He was son of Richard Scrope, D.D., and succeeded to the property of the Scropes of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, on the death of his fathe ...
, ''Deer-stalking'', 1846;
*Franz Theodor Kugler
Franz Theodor Kugler (19 January 1808, Stettin – 18 March 1858, Berlin) was an art historian and cultural administrator for the Prussia, Prussian state. He was the father of historian Bernhard von Kugler (1837–1898).
He studied literature, mu ...
, ''Handbook of Painting''; and
*Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman (10 February 1791 – 24 September 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic.
Life
He was born in London, the third son of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet, physician to King George III (see Milman Baronets). Educa ...
, ''Horace'', 1849.
Family
Williams left four sons and a daughter, all of whom successfully practised wood-engraving. Thomas Williams (fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...
1830), his younger brother, was his pupil, and a wood-engraver who worked only after others. His prints can be found in James Northcote
James Northcote (22 October 1746 – 13 July 1831) was a British Painting, painter. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1787, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1809 ...
's ''Artist's Book of Fables'' 1828; and John Martin and Richard Westall
Richard Westall (2 January 1765 – 4 December 1836) was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron. He was also Queen Victoria's drawing master.
Biography
We ...
's ''Bible Illustrations'', 1833.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Samuel 1788 births 1853 deaths English engravers 19th-century English painters English male painters People from Colchester 19th-century English male artists