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Benjamin Russell (October 16, 1804 - March 3, 1885) was an American artist best known for his accurate watercolors of whaling ships working in New England. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family, Russell started drawing and painting in his late 30s, after a few years spent working as a cooper aboard a whaling ship. Russell's depiction of perspective and depth are stiff and flat, and his images "were appreciated more for their accurate representation than their artistic value."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.inch.com/~penney/museum_site/collect/c04-russ.htm )〕 However, most of his work is perfectly to scale, resembling control drawings, and Russell watercolors are some of the better views of the mid-19th-century American whaling industry, until photography became available in the 1850s. Russell began making lithographs in 1848, and began teaching art in Rhode Island, after the American Civil War ended in 1865. He attended the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Alpha chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity. ==Image gallery== Image:WhalingVoyage ca1848 byRussell and Purrington detail NewBedfordWhalingMuseum12.png|Detail from ''Whaling Voyage Round the World'' by Russell & Purrington, ca.1848 Image:WhalingVoyage ca1848 byRussell and Purrington detail NewBedfordWhalingMuseum10.png|Detail from ''Whaling Voyage Round the World'' by Russell & Purrington, ca.1848 Image:WhalingVoyage ca1848 byRussell and Purrington EssexDetail NewBedfordWhalingMuseum1.png|Wreck of the Essex; detail from ''Whaling Voyage Round the World'' by Russell & Purrington, ca.1848 Image:1849 whaling AmoryHall Boston.png|Advertisement for performance at Boston's Amory Hall of ''Whaling Voyage Round the World,'' 1849 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Russell (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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