biografía de William Satchwell LENEY (1769-1831)

Lugar de nacimiento: London

Lugar de defunción: Longue Pointe, near Montreal, Canada

Profesión: Engraver

Estudios: trained with engraver Peltro W. Tompkins in England

Comentarios: Worked in London until 1805 when he emigrated to America and settled in NYC. Leney was one of the most successful engravers of the period in America, working in line and stipple on portrait, landscape, and subject plates as well as banknotes. He retired about 1820 to a farm near Montreal, but continued to do some engraving, including a series of views of the French-Canadian city and the first notes issued by the Bank of Montreal.

Fuentes: G&W; Stauffer; DAB; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; DNB; Rutledge, PA; NYCD 1806-18; Thieme-Becker.