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MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 465 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILLER, See also:WILLIAM (1796–1882) , Scottish See also:line-engraver, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 28th of May 1796. After studying in See also:London under See also:George See also:Cook, a See also:pupil of Basire's, he returned to Edinburgh. He executed plates after See also:Thomson of Duddingston, See also:Macculloch, D. O. See also:Hill, See also:Sir George See also:Harvey, and other Scottish landscapists, but his See also:chief See also:works were his transcripts from See also:Turner. The first of these was the See also:Clovelly (1824), of The See also:Southern See also:Coast, a publication undertaken by George Cook and his See also:brother William B. Cook, to which Miller also contributed the See also:Combe See also:Martin and the See also:Portsmouth. He was engaged on the illustrations of See also:England and See also:Wales, 1827–1838; of The See also:Rivers of See also:France, 1833–1835; of See also:Roger's Poems, 1834; and very largely on those of The See also:Prose and Poetical Works of Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, 1834. In The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of See also:Scotland, 1826, he executed a few excellent plates after Thomson and Turner. Among his larger engravings of Turner's works maybe mentioned " The See also:Grand See also:Canal, See also:Venice "; " The See also:Rhine. Osterprey and Feltzen "; " The See also:Bell See also:Rock "; " The See also:Tower of London "; and " The Shepherd." The See also:art of William Miller was warmly appreciated by Turner himself, and See also:Ruskin pronounced him to be on the whole the most successful translator into line of the paintings of the greatest See also:English landscapist. His renderings of complex Turnerian See also:sky-effects are especially delicate and masterly.

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life Miller abandoned See also:engraving and occupied his leisure in the See also:production of See also:water-See also:colours, many of which were exhibited in the Royal Scottish See also:Academy, of which he was an honorary member. He resumed his burin, however, to produce two final See also:series of vignettes from drawings by Birket See also:Foster illustrative of See also:Hood's Poems, published by See also:Moxon in 1871. Miller, who was a Quaker, died on the loth of See also:January 1882.

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