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John William Casilear (1811-1893)

Professions: Landscape painter; copperplate engraver; Engraver

  • JOHN WILLIAM CASILEAR American (1811-1893)

  • John William Casilear (1811-1893)

  • JOHN W. CASILEAR 1811-1893 NORTH CONWAY Measurements: 10 .5 by 14 . 5in. Alternate Measurements: (26.7 by 36.8 cm) inscribed North Conway and dated August 12th '51, l.r. pencil heightened with gouache on paper Provenance: The Old Print Shop, New York

  • JOHN WILLIAM CASILEAR American (1811-1893)

John William Casilear Biography

(b New York, 25 June 1811; d Saratoga Springs, NY, 17 Aug 1893). American engraver, draughtsman and painter. At 15 he was apprenticed to the engraver Peter Maverick (1780–1871) and then to Asher B. Durand. Casilear and his brother George formed a business partnership that eventually developed into the American Bank Note Co., the principal private bank-note engravers in America. He was perhaps the most fluent and accomplished draughtsman of his generation, and important collections of his landscape drawings are in the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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