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

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biography by N . See also:Neal Solly was published in 1875 .

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