William James Stillman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1828
Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York, United States
Date of Death: 06-Jul-1901
Profession: photographer, painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About William James Stillman
- William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer.
- Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer.
- For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections.
- He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans.
- Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission to excavate.
- Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.
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Image Author, Source and License
Author: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, artist. Photograph of charcoal drawing(?) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dated 1870.
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