Född 1707 19/12 i Bettna sn (Söd.), död 1747 12/1 i Stockholm (Jakob).
Brukspredikant och komminister. Kopparstickare. Son av kyrkoherden Anders G. Och Catharina Bergander. Elev av Johan van den Aveelen o. 1724. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1725, brukspredikant vid Vällinge i Salems sn (Sthlm) 1737, komminister i Jakobs och Johannes församlingar i Stockholm 1740. Kusinen C. E. Bergquist har graverat ett porträtt av sin lärare Geringius med följande omskrift:
»Den oss i koppar har så mänga bilder visat
Blir här i koppar sjelf af eftervärlden prisat
Som prest och konstnär har han tjent sitt fosterland
Var nitisk i sitt kall och konstrik i sin hand.»
Bland arbeten.
O. CELSIUS d. ä., De insula Melita, diss., resp. A. Geringius, Uppsala 1725: karta över Malta.
Antependium i Riddarholmskyrkan, 1726, kpst., avsett för J. Possieths tillämnade beskrivning över Riddarholmskyrkan.
P. TILLAEUS, Karta över Stockholm, efter P. Wallrave, 1733, utförd i samarbete med C. E. Bergquist, jämte porträtt av Fredrik I, efter M. Mijtens, kpst.
Karta över Mälaren, 1739.
Karta över Södermanland, 1743.
M. A. SAHLSTEDT, Stora Tuna i Dahlom och Bergom minnesdöme, Sthlm 1743: karta över Stora Tuna.
Hultmark, 1944.
(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
fl. 1671.
Published a notable Atlas of America which was used by John Ogilby as the basis for his An Accurate Description and Complete History of America. The maps were extremely decorative and included a view of New Amsterdam as it appeared soon after its foundation.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Plan du Fort Dauphin. - J. N. Bellin ca 1750.
