1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ETTY, WILLIAM (1787-1849), British painter, was born at York, on the icth of March 1787. His father had been in early life a miller, but had finally established himself in the city of York as a baker of spice-bread. After some scanty instruction of the most elementary kind, the future painter, at the age of eleven and a half, left the paternal roof, and was bound apprentice in the printing-office of the Hull Packet. Amid many trials and discouragements he completed his term of seven years' servitude, and having in …
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