William Bewick

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William Bewick (1795–1866) was an English engraver. He was born in Darlington, County Durham.

At the age of twenty, Bewick, son of an upholsterer, went to London to be trained under the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

[edit] Works

Bewick did several drawings Goethe of portions of the Elgin Marbles. He also worked as a copyist, so successful that Sir Thomas Lawrence sent him to copy Michelangelo's frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1826. Upon his return three years later, he worked as a history and portrait painter.

Forced to retire by a sickness, Bewick spent his last twenty years in north-east England.

[edit] External links

• Portrait drawn by Bewick
• The Bewick Studios Homepage A studio based inspired by his works.