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WILLIAM JAMES MULLER (1812-1845)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM JAMES MULLER (1812-1845)  ,
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English landscape and figure painter, was born at Bristol on the 28th of
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June 1812, his
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father, a Prussian, being curator of the museum . He first studied
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painting under J . B . Pyne . His early subjects
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deal mainly with the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and earlier landscape-painters . In 1833 he figured for the first time in the Royal Academy with his " Destruction of Old
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London Bridge—Morning," and next
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year he made a tour through France,
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Switzerland and Italy . Four years later he visited Athens, extending his travels to
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Egypt, and in the sketches executed during this period and the paintings produced from them his power and individuality are apparent . Shortly after his return he
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left Bristol and settled in London, where he exhibited regularly . In 184o he again visited France, where he executed a series of sketches of Renaissance architecture, twenty-five of which were lithographed and published in 1841, in a folio entitled The Age of Francis I. of France . In 1843 he accompanied, at his own request and his own charges, the government expedition to
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Lycia, where he made a number of masterly sketches . He died at Bristol on the 8th of September 1845 . The
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print
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room of the
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British Museum possesses, through the bequest of Mr John Henderson, a rich collection of Milller's sketches .

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biography by N . Neal Solly was published in 1875 .

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