William Green (1760–1823) was an English artist, poet, writer, and landscape painter, who made images mainly of the Lake District, determined to make them "adhere as faithfully as possible to nature." His biographer, Charles Roeder, stated: "his novel method is notable, as the artists have all a conventional and uniform style in regard to the representation of mountains. Those of Mr Green are veritable mountains; he says that he knows their anatomy and he is undoubtedly right."[citation needed]
In 1819, Green completed a major work, The Tourist's New Guide to the Lake District.
His grandson was Walter H Mayson, a British violin maker.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ Burkett, M. E.; Sloss, J. D. G. (1984). William Green of Ambleside: a Lake District artist, 1760-1823. Kendal, Cumbria: Abbot Hall Art Gallery. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-0-9503335-4-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Roeder, Charles (1896). "William Green, the Lake artist (1760–1823): a biographical sketch". Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 14: 124 of 100–130.
- Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
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- William Green on the Armitt Website
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