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William James Müller (28 June – 8 September ), also spelt Muller, was a British landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol..
Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/William James Müller
MÜLLER, William James (1812–1845), English landscape and figure painter, was born at Bristol on 28th June 1812, and was the son of a Prussian gentleman, a writer on scientific subjects and curator of the Bristol Museum.
He received a careful education, being especially trained in botany and natural history, and it was intended that he should become an engineer; but his leanings towards art were too definite to be resisted, and he was placed under J.
B. Pyne to receive his first instructions as a painter.
Artworks by William James Müller ; An Eastern Scene ; Gillingham, Kent ; A Muslim at Prayer ; An Italian Boy with a Hurdy-Gurdy ; St Benet's Abbey.
His early subjects deal mainly with the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and the other earlier landscape-painters. In 1833 he figured for the first time in the Royal Academy with his Destruction of Old London Bridge — Morning, and next year he made a tour through France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Four years later he visited Athens, extending his travels t