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WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND (1738-1783)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM WYNNE See also:RYLAND (1738-1783)  , See also:English engraver, was See also:born in See also:London in See also:July 1738, the son of an engraver and See also:copper-See also:plate printer . He studied under Ravenet, and in See also:Paris under See also:Boucher and J . P. le Bas . After spending five years on the See also:continent he returned to See also:England, and having engraved portraits of See also:George III. and See also:Lord See also:Bute after See also:Ramsay, and a portrait of See also:Queen See also:Charlotte and the Princess Royal after See also:Francis See also:Cotes, R.A., he was appointed engraver to the See also:king . In 1766 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and he exhibited with them and in the Royal See also:Academy . In his later See also:life See also:Ryland abandoned See also:line-See also:engraving, and introduced " See also:chalk-engraving," in which the line is composed of stippled dots, and in which he transcribed See also:Mortimer's " King See also:John See also:Signing Magna Charta," and copied the drawings of the old masters and the See also:works of See also:Angelica Kauffman . In consequence of his extravagant habits his affairs became involved; he was convicted of See also:forging bills upon the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and, after attempting to commit See also:suicide, was executed at See also:Tyburn on the 29th of See also:August 1783 .

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