藝術家John WEBBER (1750-1793) 生平簡歷

出生地： London, England

死亡地点： London, England

职业： Landscape painter

教育： studied painting in Bern, Switzerland; Johan Aberli, 1767-70; and Paris, with Jean-Georges Wille, 1770; Royal Acad., 1775

展出： Royal Academy, 1776

会员： Royal Academy, 1791

工作： Nat. Library of Australia; State Library of NSW, Australia; Bernice P. Bishop Mus., Honolulu; Turnbull Library, New Zealand

评论： The son of a Swiss sculptor, he spent much of his childhood in Bern. After his return to England he was employed as a decorative painter, but in 1776 he went as artist on Captain James Cook's last voyage to the Pacific. During this four-year voyage, Webber made many sketches, including some on the coast of the present states of Hawaii, Washington and Oregon, and after his return to England in 1780 he developed them into paintings which were used to illustrate the report of the expedition. Subsequently Webber painted landscapes in Great Britain, Switzerland, and Italy and published between 1787-92 sixteen views of places he had visited with Cook, etched and colored by himself.

来源： G&W; DNB; Rasmussen, Art and Artists in Oregon" (courtesy David C. Duniway); American Processional, 237; Gould, Beyond the Shining Mountains, opp. 54, 59; P&H Samuels, 515-16; Forbes, Encounters with Paradise. "