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Last Name Ascroft

Given Name William

alt. Names W. A. ;

Marriage Eleanor Ascroft (1822- past 1871)

Children 5: Eleanor Ascroft jr. (1853-1859), William T. Ascroft, James Henry Ascroft, Charles Edward Ascroft & 1 other sibling (Robert or Wilhelmina H.)

Year born 1832

Year died 1914

Place of death London?

Father's occupation

Relatives see www.myheritage.de/names/eleanor_ascroft

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for George James Symons (1838-1900) (ed.): The Eruption of Krakatoa & Subsequent Phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society (London 1888) ;

Patronage

Collaborators his color paintings were printed chromolithographically by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company ;

Techniques topographic and meteorological oil painting

Sample(s) http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-02/made-real/ fig. 23; www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10316149&wwwflag=&imagepos=8 ;

Archival sources http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/info.php?s=ascroft&type=all&t=objects ;

Published sources Jardine 2014, fig. 23 ; on the printing of W.A's plates see M. J. G. Cattermole & A. F. Wolfe: Horace Darwin's Shop. A History of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company 1878-1968 (Bristol 1987: 38) ; Zaniello: English Sunsets of the 1880s, in: Annals of the New York Acad. Sci. 360 (1981): 247-67 ;

other Late 19th Century British artist best known for his color sketches of sunsets over Chelsea in England in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano.

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