1. William Strang was a Scottish painter and printmaker, notable for illustrating the works of Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling.
17 Facts About William Strang
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William Strang had great success as an etcher and became assistant master in the etching class.
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William Strang was one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was part of its first exhibition in 1881.
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William Strang worked in many techniques: etching, drypoint, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, burin engraving, lithography and woodcut.
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William Strang cut a large wood engraving of a man ploughing, later published by the Art for Schools Association.
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William Strang produced many paintings, portraits, nude figures in landscapes, and groups of peasant families, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy, The International Society, and several German exhibitions.
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William Strang painted a decorative series of scenes from the story of Adam and Eve for the library of a Wolverhampton landowner named Hodson; they were exhibited at the Whitechapel exhibition in 1910.
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William Strang made some drawings of the nude figure in silver point and red and black chalk.
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William Strang's method gives qualities of delicate modelling and refined form and gradations akin to the drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger.
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William Strang drew portraits in this manner of many members of the Order of Merit for the royal library at Windsor Castle.
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In 1902 William Strang retired from the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, as a protest against the inclusion in its exhibitions of etched or engraved reproductions of pictures.
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William Strang's work was seen principally in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, the Society of Twelve and the International Society, to which he was elected in 1905.
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William Strang was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy when that degree was revived in 1906.
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William Strang was master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1907, where his portrait can be seen.
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William Strang ventured into literature, creating "Death and the Ploughman's Wife", an illustrated ballad in 1888.
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William Strang wrote short stories, but these were not published.
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William Strang was a member of the Art Workers' Guild, being elected as Master in 1907.