1. William Wyld was an English painter who participated at the Exposition Universelle of 1855.
12 Facts About William Wyld
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William Wyld was a friend of painters Ary Scheffer and Paul Delaroche.
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William Wyld always wished to become a painter but delayed setting out on that course to allow his younger brother to come of age first, so that he could succeed him in the wine business.
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William Wyld presented himself on board the ship, was immediately recognised by Vernet and encouraged by him to become a painter, Vernet never having doubted that William Wyld would one day do so.
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William Wyld proposed that Wyld come with him to Rome in an official fashion and promised to find him some means of support there.
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William Wyld seems to have made another foreign trip in 1844, to Algeria and Egypt.
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William Wyld travelled to Fougeres in Ille-et-Vilaine, then at Morlaix in Finistere.
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William Wyld then continued to live in Paris and exhibit at various salons.
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William Wyld was invited to the festivities for Queen Victoria's visit to France in 1855, at which he produced a monumental view of chateau de Saint-Cloud.
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William Wyld participated in the 1855 Exposition in the Pavillon des Arts at the request of Comte Emilien de Nieuwerkerke, effectively French arts minister, on which occasion he was given the Legion d'honneur.
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William Wyld remained active until his last breath, dying in his Paris home in 1889.
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William Wyld's widow continued to take pupils, among them Nina Fagnani.