W.H. BARTLETT

He was born in 1809 in Kentish Town, London, England, and served a youthful apprenticeship to architect John Britton. His chief task was to prepare landscape sketches of the English countryside. These proved so praiseworthy that the young Bartlett was considered a prodigy. At the age of 22, he joined the London publishing house of George Virtue and thereafter worked principally as an illustrator of the firm's books describing the picturesqueness of various other countries. The first volume was on Switzerland and, as was his custom, Bartlett visited the country and made a series of landscape sketches. He made four trips to North America, the first in 1836, from which two books resulted: American Scenery and Canadian Scenery. During succeeding years, he visited many European and Near Eastern countries on sketching missions. He died at sea, while travelling from Malta to Marseille, in the year 1854 at the age of 45.

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