藝術家William SIMPSON (1823-1899) 生平簡歷

出生地： Glasgow, Scotland

死亡地点： London, England

地址： San Francisco, CA; London

职业： Painter, illustrator

会员： Royal Inst., 1874

工作： Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; Peabody Mus., Harvard Univ.; Victoria & Albert Mus.; Capetown, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Nice museums.

评论： Apprenticed to Glasgow lithographers at age 14 and was a lithographer in London in 1851. Was in India, 1856-63. From 1865-85 he was Special Artist for Illustrated London News, traveling extensively including a world trip in 1872. In 1873 he accompanied A. Bierstadt (see entry) to Yosemite.

来源： Hughes, Artists in California, 517; P&H Samuels, 443-44.