William Monk (artist)
William Monk R.E. was a British etcher, wood-engraver and painter in oils and watercolours.
Born in Chester, the son of gunmaker William Henry Monk, he studied art at the Chester School of Art and etching at the Antwerp Academy, Belgium.
, London, in 1919, published in his calendar for 1920.
He was an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers from 1884 and elected a full member in 1899.
He lived in London from 1892 and published the "Calendorium Londonense" or "London Almanack" of his illustrations of London from 1903. He returned to Chester in 1933.
Examples of his work can be found in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Imperial War Museum. He exhibited at the Royal Academy.
In 2013 the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, held an exhibition of his work: 'A Vision of England: Etchings by William Monk'.
