William James Bennett

William James Bennett (1787−1844), was a British-born painter and engraver, active in the United States from 1816.

At the age of eighteen he obtained an appointment connected with the medical staff of the army, and was sent with the military to Egypt in 1805.

[3] Still attached to the military hospital, he was sent to the Mediterranean a second time, under Sir James Craig.

[3] He went to the United States around 1826, and became a member of the National Academy of Design at New York in 1828,[4] where he exhibited watercolour landscapes and seascapes, and engravings.

[4] He painted a series of four pictures of Niagara Falls, which were published as large aquatints, two of which he etched himself.

City of Detroit, Michigan. Taken from the Canada Shore near the Ferry, after a sketch by Frederick Grain , published by Henry J. Megarey, New York, 1837.