藝術家Paul REVERE (1735-1818) 生平簡歷

出生地： Boston, MA

死亡地点： Boston

地址： spent his entire life in Boston

职业： Engraver, printer, silversmith

教育： silversmithing with his father, Apollos Rivoire

工作： John Singleton's portrait of Paul Revere is at the BMFA

评论： Trained as a silversmith, Revere took up engraving about 1765 and throughout his career engraved bills, money, musical scores, political prints, cartoons, portraits, and views. He was also a copper worker, bell caster, and watercolorist. His best-known engraving, the Boston Massacre," was actually based on a depiction made by Henry Pelham (see entry). Revere is most famous for his activities as a patriot before and during the American Revolution.

来源： G&W; Goss, The Life of Colonel Paul Revere; Forbes, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. More recently, see Clarence S. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings (1969); Baigell, Dictionary; Saunders and Miles, 307-08 (which reprints excerpts of an angry letter from Pelham to Revere regarding Revere's engraving of "The Boston Massacre")."