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William Strang

William Strang (1859 - 1921) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  William Strang is known for Portrait and figure painting, nude drawing, printmaking, book illustration.

William Strang RA (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling.

He was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, builder, and educated at the Dumbarton Academy. He worked for fifteen months in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders before going to London in 1875 when he was sixteen. There he studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School of Art* for six years.

Strang became assistant master in the etching class, and had great success as an etcher. He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers*, and his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in The Portfolio and other art magazines.

He worked in many techniques: etching*, drypoint*, mezzotint*, sand-ground mezzotint, burin engraving, lithography* and woodcut*. He cut a large wood engraving of a man ploughing, later pub   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9590 characters.]  Artist bio

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