Birch was born in Warwickshire, the son of Anne, née Russell, and physician Thomas Birch. He spent his early childhood in Warwick and was apprenticed to a jeweler, Thomas Jeffreys, and to Sir Joshua Reynolds.[1] The enamelist Henry Spicer trained Birch in the art of enamel painting.[2] Birch exhibited enamel portraits at the Royal Academy from 1781 to 1794. In 1785, he received a medal from the Royal Society of Arts.[3] As an engraver he is best known in England for his Délices de la Grande Bretagne, consisting of thirty-six plates of ancient buildings in Norwich and elsewhere, published in 1791.[4]
After emigrating to Philadelphia in 1794[5] he made portrait enamels of many people including copies of portraits of George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart. The engraving series he made in 1800 of Philadelphia vistas was so extremely popular it resulted in three additional editions.[2] William Birch was the father of Thomas Birch, an American portrait and marine painter. Typescript copies of his autobiography are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[6] He died in Philadelphia, aged 79.
^Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. 1886. p. 130.
^Emily Tyson Cooperman (1999). "William Russell Birch (1755–1834) and the beginnings of the American picturesque". University of Pennsylvania. pp. 1–561. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
^"HSP Manuscript Guide: 1500-1599". Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
^"Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España - Museos". ceres.mcu.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2020.
Referencesedit
Emily T. Cooperman & Lea Carson Sherk, William Birch: Picturing the American Scene (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).[1] The first biography of William Birch, it contains an edited version of his autobiography.
External linksedit
William Russell Birch subscription lists, 1798-1802 (Smithsonian: Archives of American Art)
William Russell Birch and Thomas Birch (ushistory.org)
Search results for 'William Russell Birch' (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Country Seats of the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press)
American paintings & historical prints from the Middendorf collection, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Birch (no. 11 & 70)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Russell Birch.
November 15, 2023
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