George Wilmot Bonner
George Wilmot Bonner (1796–1836) was an English wood-engraver.
Life
Bonner was born at Devizes on 24 May 1796. Educated at Bath, he was apprenticed to Allen Robert Branston and then James Henry Vizetelly, wood-engravers in London. He became an engraver in the style of Thomas Bewick, and was noted for producing a gradation of tints by means of a combination of blocks.[1]
Bonner himself trained William James Linton and William Henry Powis. He died on 3 June 1836.[1]
Works
With John Byfield, Bonner engraved for The Dance of Death, edited by Francis Douce in 1833, Hans Holbein's Imagines Mortis, from the Lyon edition of 1547. Some of his woodcuts appeared in the British Cyclopædia.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
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- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bonnar, George William". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.