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| | Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1825. Borthwick studied at the Edinburgh Academy until 1840. During the 1840s he sailed to NYC, and in 1851 arrived in northern California as a gold prospector and artist. His illustrations of mining activities were the first to appear in London newspapers. He left San Francisco in 1854 for Australia, and in 1860 returned to London where he wrote a book entitled Three Years in California which contains eight lithographs. Borthwick died in London about 1900. Exh: Royal Academy, 1862, 1865. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California on Stone (Peters); First 100 Years of Painting in California (J. Van Nostrand); Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E); New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America (Groce, George C. and David H. Wallace); California Pictorial (Van Nostrand & Coulter). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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| | An illustrator of the Gold Rush era of California. |
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