(b 1813; d London, 19 Dec 1907).
English engraver. He was educated in Ghent, Belgium, and later at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where he was awarded silver medals in 1839 and 1841. He worked in the mixed mezzotint style and exhibited 43 examples of his work at the Royal Academy between 1841 and 1893. Of Stacpoole’s many plates, perhaps the best-known are those after William Holman Hunt’s Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.) and the battle subjects of Lady Butler. Stacpoole began work early in 1874 on the engraving of Shadow of Death . The original picture had been bought by Thos Agnew & Sons and was exhibited so widely that, on publication of the engravings in 1877, the sale of proofs alone realized more than £20,000. By January 1879 Stacpoole had received a total of £3560 from the Fine Art Society for his plates after Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
Bland arbeten.
Shadow of Death (1873; Manchester, C.A.G.), Lady Butler’s Roll Call (1874; British Royal Col.; declared for publication in 1874), Quatre Bras (1875; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) and Balaclava (1876; Manchester, C.A.G.; both declared in 1876).
1512-1577.
Cartographer, publisher and printer of maps and graphic art. Born in France, Lafreri moved to Rome in 1540 where he launched a business in 1544. His great triumph came in 1572 with the publication of a catalogue including a reduced copy of Olaus Magnus's famous Carta Marina.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
Född Kurkslätts socken i Finland d. 2 april 1779.
Militär, tecknare. Föräldrar: kapellanen Mikael Thersner och Johanna Dorph. - T. begynte redan vid sju års ålder sin militära bana, i det han då vardt antagen till skeppsgosse, i hvilken egenskap han tjänstgjorde under ryska kriget 1788-90. Sergeant vid arméns flotta 1794 och fänrik 1799, var han såsom informationsofficer vid Göteborgs eskader 1804 anställd att förrätta hydrografiska mätningar i Bohuslän. 1808 löjtnant i Fältmätningskåren, dit han blifvit förflyttad året förut, deltog han på skilda håll krigsoperationerna 1808-09, blef kapten 1810 och medverkade s. å. vid gränsregleringen mellan Sverige och Ryssland. Sedan han i 1813-14 års krig haft åtskilliga kommenderingar och sistnämnda år befordrats till major i Fältmätningsbrigaden, förrättade han bl. a. 1815-17 fältmätningar i Skåne. 1825 tog han afsked ur krigstjänsten med öfverstlöjtnants rang. - Bland elementen i hans ungdomsbildning hörde bl. a. att med grafstickeln frambringa åtskilliga småstycken. På egen hand förkofrade han sig gradvis i tecknin...
Bland arbeten.
Fordna och närvarande Sverige
Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon. Nordisk Familjebok, första utgåvan.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Witte von Lillienau - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
GERRITSZ [GERARD, GERARDUS, GHERRITSZOON van ASSUM].
Biografiska uppgifter:Hessel 1581-1632.
Gerritsz was apprenticed to W. J. Blaeu as an engraver before starting in business on his own account. He worked closely with Petrus Plancius and his merit may be judged by the fact that he was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company in preference to Blaeu and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. With the new company he came into touch with Johannes de
Laet for whom he prepared a number of new maps of America in the latter's Nieuwe Wereldt published in 1625. His most important early work was a chart showing Henry Hudson's discoveries in his voyage of 1610-11: it is the first to give an outline of Hudson's Bay and indicates Hudson's belief that he had found a way to the North West Passage.
Engraver, cartographer, publisher and bookseller, b. Assum, apprenticed as engraver to Blaeu, Cartographer to Dutch E. India Co. 1617, fl. 1607; from 1612 using sign 'in de Paskaert' or 'sub signo Tabulae Nauticae'. Addresses: (1) opt Water bij die oude Brug [1609], (2) by die Lienbaens Brugh [1616], (3) Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal [1624], (4) Doelestraat [1627-32].
Engraved 17 Netherlands (1608?, lost)
Gulick Cleve 1610,
Spain 1612-(15),
Besch. van de Samoyeden Landt 1612,
Besch. van de Zeecusten van Ierlandt 1612,
engd. Blaeu's Lithuania 1613,
Russia 1613,
Italy 1617,
MS charts E. Indies, Pacific & c. 1617-22,
maps in Laet's Novus Orbis 1625,
Eendrachts' Land (W. Australia) 1627,
Rotario W. Indies & S. America 1628-32 MSS.
(Tooley.)
