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Frederick Whymper

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Frederick Whymper (1838 - 1901) was active/lived in California / England.  Frederick Whymper is known for Sea-landscape, survey-illustrator.

Best known for his watercolor seascapes and survey expedition illustrations, especially of Alaska, Frederic Whymper was an artist as well as an author and mining engineer. He was born in England in 1838. As a young man, he worked with his brother, Edward, on Alpine books.

In the late 1850s, he traveled as the official artist to the Waddington Expedition in British Columbia.

Between 1862 and 1867 he made numerous visits to San Francisco. Sailing from San Francisco in 1865, he was a member of the Russian-American Telegraph Exploring Expedition that traveled to Alaska. There he worked in and around Nulat, located on the Yukon River, and also along the Anadyr River in Siberia. Whymper's explorations also included travels to Kamchatka, and the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea. Based on his experiences he authored and illustrated in 1869 a book with the impressively long title: "Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded to the United S   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2629 characters.]  Artist bio

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13 Book References for Frederick Whymper
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1987 Viola, Herman J; William H. Goetzmann (Intro) Exploring the West 256 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1980 Van Nostrand, Jeanne The First Hundred Years of Painting in California 1775-1875 135 Yes
1977 Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape 159 Yes
1973 Bell, Michael Painters in a New Land From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike 224 Yes
1869 Whymper, Frederickl Travels and Adventures in the Territory of Alaska 0 No
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