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WILLMORE, JAMES TIBBITTS (1800-1863)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLMORE, See also:JAMES TIBBITTS (1800-1863) , See also:English See also:line engraver, was See also:born at Bristnall's End, See also:Handsworth, near See also:Birmingham, on the r5th of See also:September 1800. At the See also:age of fourteen he was apprenticed to See also:William See also:Radcliffe, a Birmingham engraver, and in 1823 he went to See also:London and was employed for three years by See also:Charles See also:Heath. He was afterwards engaged upon the plates of Brockedon's Passes of the See also:Alps and See also:Turner's See also:England and See also:Wales. He engraved after Chalon, Leitch, Stan-See also:field, See also:Landseer, See also:Eastlake, See also:Creswick and See also:Ansdell, and especially after Turner, from whose " See also:Alnwick See also:Castle by Moonlight," " The Old Temeraire," " See also:Mercury and See also:Argus," " See also:Ancient See also:Rome," and the subjects of the See also:rivers of See also:France, he executed many admirable plates. He was elected an See also:associate engraver of the Royal See also:Academy in 1843. He died on the 12th of See also:March 1863.

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