William miller engraver biography of mahatma
William miller engraver biography of mahatma
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Miller, William (engraver).
OBITUARY
This famous engraver, who died on the 20th ult. while on a visit to Sheffield, was in his eighty-sixth year, having been born at Edinburgh on the 28th May 1796.
In youth he displayed a taste for Art, and after studying in London under the celebrated engraver, Mr G Cooke, he returned to his native place, and soon acquired a reputation as a line engraver, being specially noted for his reproductions in black-and-white of the works of JMW Turner, RA.
He also executed a large number of illustrations for Turner's England and Wales and for the works of Scott, Campbell, Rogers and others.
The greater part of his work was of course done at a period already remote, but within the last ten years he executed a series of vignette illustrations from Birket Foster for Hood's Poems.
Turner always held Mr Miller's engravings in the highest esteem, and Ruskin has said that on the whole he was the best engraver after that great artist.
Writing in Ariadne