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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

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Display artist/maker:

William James Bennett

Born: c.1787, UK, England   Died: 1844, New York

Painter and printmaker. Trained at the Royal Academy where he not only developed skills in painting but also in sculpture and, importantly, engraving. He followed up this interest in printmaking to become a skilled creator of aquatint plates and was frequently employed by Rudolph Ackermann during the 1810s to interpret the designs of artists for his exquisite publications of hand-coloured aquatints. In addition to this work Bennett exhibited his topographcal watercolours across London. In 1926 he emigrated to America where some of his most adventurous work was produced. This included street scenes published in 'Megarey's Street Views in the City of New-York' but he also ventured out to other US cities, the Hudson Valley and the Niagara Falls. Bennett greatly helped raise the standard of aquatint printing in America and his work is held in many American collections

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