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See also:BEECHEY, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1753—1839) , See also:English portrait-painter, was See also:born at See also:Burford. He was originally meant for a conveyancer, but a strong love for See also:painting induced him to become a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil at the Royal See also:Academy in 1772. Some of his smaller portraits gained him considerable reputation; he began to be employed by the See also:nobility, and in 1703 became See also:associate of the Academy. In the same See also:year he was made portrait-painter to See also:Queen See also:Charlotte. He painted the portraits of the members of the royal See also:family, and of nearly all the most famous or See also:fashion-able persons of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. What is considered his finest See also:production is a. See also:review of See also:cavalry, a large See also:composition, in the foreground of which he introduced portraits of See also:George III., the See also:prince of See also:Wales and the See also:duke of See also:York, surrounded by a brilliant See also:staff on horseback. It was painted in 1798, and obtained for the artist the See also:honour of See also:knighthood, and his See also:election as R.A.
End of Article: BEECHEY, SIR WILLIAM (1753—1839)
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