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Memoir of the Life of William James Müller. Of this marriage three sons were born ; also one daughter, who died in infancy. The eldest son, Henry, born in 1808, was brought up to the medical profession, and having early in life obtained a country practice at Congresbury, about ten miles from Bristol, he married. But he only lived or one year after his marriage, and died in 1843. William James Müller was the second son; and the youngest, Edmund G. Muller, born in 1816, still survives. Like his brother William he has followed the profession of an artist, although educated first for the medical profession, and is a resident in the neighbourhood of Bristol.
On 28th June 1812 William James Müller was born.
1831-1833. William James Müller (age 18). "Four Stars Inn, Counterslip, Bristol".
1831. William James Müller (age 18). "Bristol Riots: The Burning of the Toll Houses on Prince Street Bridge with St Mary Redcliffe".
1831. William James Müller (age 18). Font at St Mary's and All Saints Church, Little Walsingham.
1831-1833. William James Müller (age 18). "Castle Ditch, Bristoj Castle [Map]".
1832. William James Müller (age 19). Watercolor of Stanton Drew Great Circle.
Around 1832. William James Müller (age 19). "A Street in Cario, Egypt.
Around 1832. William James Müller (age 19). Landscape with Horseman.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1833. William James Müller (age 20). "Gateway of Caernarfon Castle [Map]".
1835. William James Müller (age 22). View of Bristol Cathedral [Map].
1837. William James Müller (age 24). "Caernarfon Castle [Map]".
1837. William James Müller (age 24). View of Bristol Cathedral [Map].
1837. William James Müller (age 24). "View of Bristol, Gloucestershire [Map] from Clifton Wood".
1837. William James Müller (age 24). "Eastern Landscape".
1838. William James Müller (age 25). "The Parthenon, Athens".
1842. William James Müller (age 29). Gillingham, Kent [Map] on the River Medway.
1842. William James Müller (age 29). Gillingham, Kent [Map].
1843. William James Müller (age 30). "The Pyramids".
1844. William James Müller (age 31). "Lycia: The Rocky Stair at Tlos".
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
1844. William James Müller (age 31). "Lycia: The Citadel of Tlos".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Historic Stonehenge".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "The Peak Cavern [Map], Derbyshire, Peveril Castle [Map]".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Bristol Riots: The Burning of the Bishop's Palace".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Waterfall with Fisherman".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "The Ramesseum at Thebes".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Bristol Harbour in ice".
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). Bristol Harbour with St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Before 1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Santa Maria della Salute, Venice".
1845. William James Müller (age 32). "Compton Dando, Somerset [Map]".
Memoir of the Life of William James Müller. A few more lines, brief and sad, and this memoir will be finished. On Monday morning, the 8th of September [1845], Edmund Muller had commenced to set his brother’s palette after breakfast, as was his wont; and William Muller (age 33), who was propped up, seemed about as well as he had been of late, when suddenly a change came over him. He appears to have broken an internal blood-vessel. He had just strength to call to his brother for help, and then said, "Remember Gooden and — and — that other." He could not pronounce the name, but it was supposed to be Charles Bentley, to whom he was much attached. Soon after this, exhausted nature gave way, his head fell, and he never spoke again. He had entered "the Silent Land," and all his work and sufferings were over.
On Friday, the 12th, he was quietly laid to rest in the old Lewin’s Mead burial-ground, situated in a retired part of Bristol, leading out of Brunswick Square. Several of his mother’s relatives, the Jameses, had long been buried there. It is a small and secluded cemetery, with a few trees, shrubs, and flowers ; and the grave of Muller, marked only with a flat stone and a simple inscription, is situated at its furthest end, and is placed underneath an overhanging elder-bush. As Tennyson sang in memory of another young Englishman, we may say of Muller —
"'Tis well; 'tis something ; we may stand
Where he in English earth is laid.
And from his ashes may be made
The violets of his native land.
'Tis little; but it looks in truth
As if the quiet bones were blest
Among familiar names to rest.
And in the places of his youth."
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On 8th September 1845 William James Müller (age 33) died.
Memoir of the Life of William James Müller. Memoir of the life of William James Müller: a native of Bristol, landscape and figure painter: with original letters and an account of his travels and of his principal works by Solly, N. Neal (Nathaniel Neal). 1875.
