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William Simpson

William Simpson (1823 - 1899) was active/lived in California / United Kingdom.  William Simpson is known for Combat artist, history, lithographer.

The following is excerpted from the writing of Adrian Lipscomb, author and great grandson of the artist:

William Simpson (1823 - 1899)
"Prince of Pictorial Correspondents" *

William Simpson is widely-known known today as the War Artist whose first-hand depiction of the Crimean War helped bring home the reality of that ill-managed campaign to the British public. His were the surrogate eyes of Empire in many Victorian military adventures, and he reported faithfully and, indeed, sometimes disapprovingly, on what he saw: "wherever shot and shell and ugly sword-blades are about, there he is sure to be", wrote the Glasgow Baillie of him in 1878, for Simpson was the first of the Victorian "Special Artists" whose primary focus was war, a group which has now yielded place to war correspondents and camera-men.

But Simpson was more than just a War Artist - his artistic stock in trade encompassed both the military and civil achievements of a world in which the British Emp   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15663 characters.]  Artist bio

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