William Daniell (1769–1837)

• Was an English painter and printmaker.
• He was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey.
• His father was a bricklayer.
• Daniell was sent to live with his uncle, the landscape artist Thomas Daniell after his father's premature death in 1779.
• In 1784 William accompanied his uncle to India, who worked there on a series of prints, acting as his assistant in preparing drawings and sketches.
• On 17 July 1786, Thomas Daniell placed an advertisement in the Calcutta Chronicle, announcing the forthcoming publication of a set of twelve views of the city.
• It was completed in November 1788 and sold well.
• They travelled to Bombay in March 1793 they met James Wales, then busy drawing the area's cave temples.
• In September 1794 the Daniells returned to England.

• In 1794, William and his uncle set up house at 37 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square.

• The Daniells' great work on India, Oriental Scenery, was published in six parts over the period 1795–1808.

• Thirty sets were sold to the East India Company, and a further order for eighteen copies was received.

• Daniell's years after 1804 included making 72 etchings after George Dance's highly finished pencil profile portraits of Regency London's artistic establishment.

• Daniell decided to undertake what was to be his greatest artistic work, A Voyage Round Great Britain, over the period 1813 to 1823.

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