William James Müller
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William James Müller, also spelt Muller, was a British landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School.
William James Müller, portrait 1825-50
Gillingham on the Medway, 1842
Bust of the late W. J. Müller by Nathan Branwhite, Bristol Cathedral
1831 Bristol riots
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The 1831 Bristol riots took place on 29–31 October 1831 and were part of the 1831 reform riots in England. The riots arose after the second Reform Bill was voted down in the House of Lords, stalling e
William James Müller
…of the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and earlier landscape-painters. He witnessed the 1831 Bristol riots and recorded some of the scenes in a series of "raw and brilliant oil and watercolour sketches". In 1833, he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the…
Queen Square on the Night of 30 October 1831, a contemporary depiction of the riots
The 3rd Dragoon Guards act to suppress the riots.
A soldier of the 3rd Dragoon Guards
A 1901 depiction of the attack on Sir Charles Wetherell