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Details of this illustrator << Previous Next >> | Last Name | Westall | | Given Name | William | | alt. Names | W. W. ; | | Marriage | Ann Sedgwick in 1820 | | Children | Mary, William, Thomas, Richard, Robert, sister | | Year born | 1781 in Hertford, England | | Year died | 1850 | | Place of death | St. John's Wood, Hampstead, London | | Father's occupation | brewery manager Benjamin Westall | | Relatives | mother: Martha Harbord; 4 step-siblings: half-brother Richard Westall (1765-1836) painter/illustrator; brother-in-law William Daniell marine painter | | Education | taught by his brother Richard Westall at the Royal Academy | | Country of Activity | United Kingdom | | Worked for | John Sibthorp (1758-1796): Flora Graeca ; botanist Peter Good (1xxx-1803) ; Robert Brown (1773-1858) ; Voyage Terra Australis 1814 ; Westall: Views Australian Scenery & Foreign Scenery (1811) ; | | Patronage | Society of Artists and Royal Academy; Capt. Matthew Flinders, Joseph Banks | | Collaborators | -> Ferdinand Bauer ; John Sowerby ; James Sowerby ; publisher Rudolph Ackermann ; engraver J. Byrne ; engraver S. Middiman ; engraver J. Pye ; engraver W. Woolnoth ; | | Techniques | drawing, watercolor, copperplate engraving, aquatint; botanical, topographic , landscape oil painting, lithography | | Sample(s) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Westall | | Archival sources | National Archive of Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/navigators/naturalists/westall.htm | | Published sources | AKL ; ThB 35 1942: 443 ; H. W. Lack: Die Frontispieze von Sibthorps Flora Graeca, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 99B (1997): 615-654 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 (without number) ; | | other | Active as a landscape artist and figure draughtsman on board HMS Investigator 1801-5 to Australia. Further Places of Activity: China, India, Madeira, and Jamaica. | | viaf1 | 42192548 | | viaf2 | | | viaf3 | |
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