JAMES TIBBITTS

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• JAMES TIBBITTS WILLMORE (1800-1863)

WILLMORE (1800-1863)  , English line engraver, was born at Bristnall's End, Handsworth, near Birmingham, on the r5th of September 1800 . At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to William Radcliffe, a Birmingham engraver, and in 1823 he went to London and was employed for three years by Charles Heath . He was afterwards engaged upon the plates of Brockedon's Passes of the Alps and Turner's England and Wales . He engraved after Chalon, Leitch, Stan-field, Landseer, Eastlake, Creswick and Ansdell, and especially after Turner, from whose " Alnwick Castle by Moonlight," " The Old Temeraire," " Mercury and Argus," " Ancient Rome," and the subjects of the rivers of France, he executed many admirable plates . He was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy in 1843 . He died on the 12th of March 1863 .