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Last Name Casilear

Given Name John William

alt. Names J. W C. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1811 in New York

Year died 1893

Place of death Saratoga Springs, New York

Father's occupation

Relatives engraver and landscape painter ->George William Casilear (fl. 1847 - fl. 1860) (brother) ;

Education trained by New York engraver Peter Maverick (17xx-1xxx), painter Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) ; Asa Gray: Atlas of Botany (1857) ; C. Wilkes: United States Exploring Expedition 1838-42 (vol. XV: Botany, 1857) ; American Bank Note Company ;

Patronage

Collaborators George William Casilear (fl. 1847 - fl. 1860) (brother) ; engraver ->W. H. Dougal & Prudhomme ; draughtsman ->Isaac Sprague ; Alfred T. Agate ; J. Drayton ;

Techniques zoological, landscape painting; copperplate engraving; bank-note engraving

Sample(s) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Casilear_LakeGeorge_1860.jpg

Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Casilear

Published sources AKL 17 1997: 101 ; ThB 6 1912: 114f. ; Nissen: Zoolog 1969/78 # 1032 ; A. Blum: Picturing Nature 1993 ; Bridson 2003: 66 & 150 ;

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