William Bromley
William Bromley (1769–1842) was a British engraver. Bromley, who was born in Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, was apprenticed to an engraver named J G Wooding in London, and soon attracted favorable notice. • Illustration — The Reform Banquet at Guildhall, 11 July 1832, now at the National Portrait Gallery; based on The Reform Banquet by Benjamin Robert Haydon Of his early works the most popular are the prints in 'Macklin's Bible,' and his engravings of Stothard's designs illustrating the 'History of England.' He engraved also two of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portraits of the Duke of Wellington, and one of the young Napoleon. His sons, John Charles Bromley and James Bromley, were also engravers.
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William Bromley
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- Born
- 1769. · Carisbrooke.
- Died
- 1842. · London.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- painter and engraver.
- Languages
- English.
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His grandson, William Bromley III, was a painter.
The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by William Bromley is recorded in the collections of Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Australian National Maritime Museum, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Ackland Art Museum and Yale Center for British Art.
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William Bromley was an engraver, reproductive printmaker and painter, born in 1769 in Carisbrooke and died in 1842. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
John Shebbeare. Line engraving by W. Bromley, 1788., by William Bromley
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John Wesley. Line engraving by W. Bromley, 1791., by William Bromley
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1769
William Bromley born at Carisbrooke.
1792
Liberty, and equality, two sermons. By William Bromley Cadogan,... 1792 (1792) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1842
William Bromley died at London.
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Where material relating to William Bromley is held. The love of Christ the portion and principle of the children of God.
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- Bromley, William (1769–1842), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017
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