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William James Bennett

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William James Bennett (1787 - 1844) was active/lived in New York / England.  William Bennett is known for Town-landscape, marine, city view aquatints.

William Bennett was born in England.  In 1799 the esteemed watercolor artist Richard Westall sponsored Bennett's entry into the Royal Academy of Art in London.  Bennett showed an aptitude for landscape views, paying particular attention to topographical detail and the subtleties of light and atmosphere.

Enrollment in the British forces in 1803 cut short Bennett's art training.  For the next three years he traveled on assignment to Egypt, Malta, and cities along the Mediterranean.  Bennett sketched throughout his tour, producing expansive watercolors of foreign landscapes.

Upon his return to England Bennett became a founding member of the Association of Artists in Water-Colours and received many commissions to illustrate books with aquatints.  Although his reputation continued to grow, financial difficulties eventually prompted a move to America sometime around 1826.

Bennett settled in New York City and soon became a member o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1366 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  46
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William James Bennett
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Prints, Photographs & Architectural January 2005 Markham, Sandra Yes
ARTnews Parrots, Profiles, and the Pict... October 2002 Greben, Deidre Stein Yes
46 Book References for William James Bennett
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1995 Barnhill, Georgia B Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper 99 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 Yes
1991 Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro) Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840
(Exhibition catalog)		 136 Yes
1991 Howat, John K (foreward) American Watercolors From Metropolitan Museum of Art 204 Yes
1991 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 204 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Counterpoint Two Centuries of American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
1988 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings 1160 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Adamson, Jeremy Elwell Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Sweeney, J Gray Great Lakes Marine Painting of the Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Hirschl & Adler Galleries America in Print 1796-1941
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Shackelford, George T M Nineteenth-Century American Print From the Dartmouth College Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 116 No
1976 Deak, Gloria/James Flexner American Views Prospects and Vistas 134 Yes
1976 Riggs, Timothy A The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876 95 No
1975 Fern, Alan; Milton Kaplan Viewpoints: The Library of Congress Selection of Pictorial Treasures 222 No
1975 Gibson, Arthur Hopkin Artists of Early Michigan A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native To or Active in Michigan 1701-1900 250 No
1975 Stein, Roger B Seascape and the American Imagination
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1968 Dickson, Harold E Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
(Exhibition catalog)		 234 No
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1966 Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck History of Water Color in America 160 Yes
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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