William Bellers
William Bellers (fl. 1749–1773) was an English landscape painter. • Illustration — William Bellers, self-portrait
William Bellers
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William Bellers (fl. 1749–1773) was an English landscape painter. • Illustration — William Bellers, self-portrait
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Bellers worked in London in the second half of the 18th century. Between the years 1761 and 1773, he was a frequent contributor of paintings, and tinted and crayoned drawings to the exhibitions of the Free Society of Artists; in these works the effects of sunset, moonlight, and storm play a prominent part. Eight views of the Cumberland and Westmoreland lakes were engraved after him by J. S. Müller, Chatelain, Charles Grignion the Elder, Canot, and James Mason, and published by Boydell in 1774; and a set of 10 English landscapes by him was etched by Peter Paul Benazech, James Mason, G. Bickham, and James Peake. There is also a view of Netley Abbey engraved after him by J. Toms and J. Mason. The dates of Bellers' birth and death are not known.
A View of Derwentwater. Towards Borrowdale. A Lake near Keswick in Cumberland, hand colored etching, printed in London, by William Bellers, Poppins Court, Fleet Street.
Chatelain (1710-1758) Simon Francois Ravenet (1706-1774) after William Bellers (Active 1749-1773) · UK Government Art Collection
A View of the Head of Ulswater toward Patterdale, painted after Nature by W. Bellers, engraved by Mrs. Chatelin Mason. Hand colored. This engraving is located in Finland, Helsinki, at The British Embassy.
Engraved by Chatelain (1710-1758) James Mason (1710-1775) after William Bellers (Active 1749-1773) · UK Government Art Collection
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- 1.« William Bellers », notice du British Museum, catalogue en ligne.
- 2.C'est ce qu'avance Neil Jeffares, In: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Norwich, Unicorn Press, 2010, — extrait en ligne.
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- A. R. Bayley, Notes and queries, CIII, 1901, .
- Notice de Stephen Bury, In : .
- Timothy Clayton, The English print 1688–1802, 1997.
- M. H. Grant, A Dictionary of British Landscape Painters from the 16th Century to the 20th Century, Leigh-on-Sea, 1970, — cité par le British Museum.
- Graves, Robert Edmund : « William Bellers », In: Leslie Stephen (direction) Dictionary of National Biography, tome 4, Londres, Smith, Elder & Co., 1885, — sur Wikisource.
- Karl-Heinrich von Heinecken, Dictionnaire des artistes, dont nous avons des estampes, tome I, Leipzig, Breitkopf, édition de 1788.
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