Biografie von William SIMPSON (1823-1899)

Birth place: Glasgow, Scotland

Death place: London, England

Addresses: San Francisco, CA; London

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Member: Royal Inst., 1874

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

Comments: 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.

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