Biografie von William Skinner SIMPSON (1795-1865)

Birth place: London, England

Death place: Petersburg, VA

Addresses: Petersburg, VA

Profession: Landscape painter

Work: Assoc. for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Comments: Followed his future wife from England to Virginia in 1819. Working as an insurance agent, he made many sketches and watercolors of several counties in Virginia.

Sources: Wright, Artists in Virgina Before 1900.