William james muller biography of abraham
Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/William James Müller.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/William James Müller
MÜLLER, William James (–), English landscape and figure painter, was born at Bristol on 28th June , and was the son of a Prussian gentleman, a writer on scientific subjects and curator of the Bristol Museum.
William james muller biography of abraham
He received a careful education, being especially trained in botany and natural history, and it was intended that he should become an engineer; but his leanings towards art were too definite to be resisted, and he was placed under J.
B. Pyne to receive his first instructions as a painter. His early subjects deal mainly with the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and the other earlier landscape-painters.
In he figured for the first time in the Royal Academy with his Destruction of Old London Bridge &#; Morning, and next year he made a tour through France, Switzerland, and Italy. Four years later he visited Athens, extending his travels to Egypt, and in the s