| 词条 | William Baillie (artist) |
| 释义 |
William Baillie (1752/3–Calcutta 1799) was a British artist working in India in the late 18th century. LifeWilliam Baillie was born in 1752 or 1753.[1] He went to India as a cadet in the Bengal Infantry in 1777, transferred to the Engineers in 1778 and participated in surveying work along the Hooghly River.[2] He went on leave without pay in 1785 and the next year started a weekly newspaper, the Calcutta Chronicle. He finally resigned from the army in 1788 with the intention of pursuing a career as an artist,[2] but in 1792 he became secretary of the Free School Society in Calcutta[2] and superintendent of the school itself.[2] In the same year he published his "Plan of Calcutta", a reduced version of a map made by Lt. Col. Mark Wood in 1784–5.[3] In 1794 he published a set of hand-coloured aquatints entitled Twelve Views of Calcutta.[1][2] The plates, each measuring 15 by 11 inches, were advertised as "executed in the manner of stained drawings". [4] A further set of eight prints "of the ruins of Gour and Rajmehal" was announced as completed in 1798, but no impressions have been traced.[5]In a letter of 1795 he told his fellow-artist Ozias Humphry that he had wasted a lot of time painting landscapes, adding that "it is a pleasing pursuit, but not a pot-boiling one."[6] He died in Calcutta in 1799 at the age of 46.[7] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000000736u00000000.html|publisher=British Library|title=North view of the Water Gate and Royal Barracks Fort William|accessdate=9 July 2012}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Baillie, William}}2. ^{{cite web|title=HU/4/88-89 William Baillie, Calcutta, to Ozias Humphry, Portrait Painter to His Majesty, No. 13 Old Bond Street, London 23 Nov 1793|url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXSR_=&_IXSP_=3&_MREF_=94636&_IXACTION_=display&_IXSPFX_=templates/full/&_IXTRAIL_=Names%A0A-Z&_IXlink=y|website=Royal Academy Collections|accessdate=25 May 2016}} 3. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIa-A2bM3n0C&pg=PA165&lpg|page=165|title=Texts Of Power:Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal|editor1-first=Partha |editor1-last=Chatterjee |publisher=University of Minnesota Press|year=1995|isbn=9780816626878}} 4. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Seton-Carr|editor1-first=W.S.|title=Selections from Calcutta Gazettes, Volume II|date=1865|publisher=O.T. Cutter|location=Calcutta|page=578|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JtpNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA578}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Prints & drawings collection summary|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/OIOCShowDescs.asp?CollID=304426|publisher=The British Library|accessdate=25 May 2016}} 6. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNuj6v9R1eIC&pg=PA121&lpg|page=121|title=The Artificial Empire: The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges|first=Giles Henry Rupert|last= Tillotson|authorlink=Giles Tillotson|publisher=Routledge|year=2000|isbn=9780700712823}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=41560|publisher=Historic Houses Trust|title=South view of Calcutta, taken from the Glacis of Fort William / W. Baillie|accessdate=9 July 2012}} 5 : 18th-century British painters|British male painters|British etchers|1750s births|1799 deaths |
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