William miller engraver biography of michaels

Miller became an apprentice to William Archibald in His first published engraving was in that year, of an apple tree for William Archibald. He spent four years with William Archibald, then setting up on his own account. At the end of he moved to Hackney to join the workshop of George Cooke.

William Miller (– 20 January

Other apprentices with Cooke included William Shotter Boys. In the s his address is listed as 4 Hope Park, in the Meadows area of Edinburgh. Whilst an apprentice with Cooke, Miller drew a series of plants from the neighbouring nursery of Loddiges. Arch, - Miller was one of the principal engravers of J. James Giles , one of William Miller's pupils, wrote some reminiscences of his time as an apprentice at Hope Park.

The drawings, which at first sight looked so mysterious and unintelligible, the more they were pondered, unfolded their wondrous meaning and beauty; and from my own experience I can testify, that sitting for weeks before the same drawing, I did not tire over them, as was the case with inferior pictures. The plates executed from to consisted of the illustrations to Scott's Works, Turner's 'Annual Tour', Gainsborough's 'Watering Place' , a large Venice, by Turner and, of course, some plates of less note.

The plates for Rogers's poems were engraved before my time, but not published till afterwards; these are probably the most exquisite gems that ever were, or ever will be produced. I beg however to differ from Ruskin in my estimate of them. I like Loch Lomond , and the old Ancestral Hall better than the vignette, with the fountain , at the beginning of the volume