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William McMurtrie AUCTION RECORDS
1816 Philadelphia - 1872 Washington, District Of Columbia. Known for: Landscape, portrait, survey artist.
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William Birch McMurtrie was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Henry McMurtrie, an eminent anatomy and science teacher. William learned to delineate from his father. What other art training... Read full biography
William Birch McMurtrie was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Henry McMurtrie, an eminent anatomy and science teacher. William learned to delineate from his father. What other art training he had is unknown; however, he was named for William Russell Birch, Philadelphia painter and... Read full biography
William Birch McMurtrie was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Henry McMurtrie, an eminent anatomy and science teacher. William learned to delineate from his father. What other art training he had is unknown; however, he was named for William Russell Birch, Philadelphia painter and engraver, with whom he may have studied. As a man-about-town and constantly in debt, he needed to escape his creditors. Hired as a topographical draftsman for the Pacific Coast Survey, he arrived in... Read full biography
William Birch McMurtrie was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Henry McMurtrie, an eminent anatomy and science teacher. William learned to delineate from his father. What other art training he had is unknown; however, he was named for William Russell Birch, Philadelphia painter and engraver, with whom he may have studied. As a man-about-town and constantly in debt, he needed to escape his creditors. Hired as a topographical draftsman for the Pacific Coast Survey, he arrived in California in 1849 and worked for the survey intermittently until 1859. He did watercolors and pencil drawings up and down the West Coast. His drawings were simple, accurate in detail, and used little shading. His view of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill... Read full biography
William Birch McMurtrie was born in 1816 in Philadelphia, PA, the son of Henry McMurtrie, an eminent anatomy and science teacher. William learned to delineate from his father. What other art training he had is unknown; however, he was named for William Russell Birch, Philadelphia painter and engraver, with whom he may have studied. As a man-about-town and constantly in debt, he needed to escape his creditors. Hired as a topographical draftsman for the Pacific Coast Survey, he arrived in California in 1849 and worked for the survey intermittently until 1859. He did watercolors and pencil drawings up and down the West Coast. His drawings were simple, accurate in detail, and used little shading. His view of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill in 1850 was lithographed and published the next year by Nathaniel Currier. In 1859 he returned to the East Coast and worked for the Coas. Source: Edan... Read full biography
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