William Birch (painter)

William Russell Birch (9 April 1755 – 7 August 1834) was an English miniature painter, enameler, and landscape engraver and designer.

He spent his early childhood in Warwick and was apprenticed to a jeweler, Thomas Jeffreys, and to Sir Joshua Reynolds.

[1] The enamelist Henry Spicer trained Birch in the art of enamel painting.

[3] As an engraver he is best known in England for his Délices de la Grande Bretagne, consisting of thirty-six plates of ancient buildings in Norwich and elsewhere, published in 1791.

The engraving series he made in 1800 of Philadelphia vistas was so extremely popular it resulted in three additional editions.