Brett, John Watkins, 1805-1863

LC control no.	no2018028616
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brett, John Watkins, 1805-1863 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Brett, J. B. (John Watkins), 1805-1863
Associated country	England
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1805
Death date	1863
Place of birth	Bristol (England)
Field of activity	Cables, Submarine Telegraph Art--Collectors and collecting
Profession or occupation	Engineers Art collectors Painters
Found in	Christie, Manson & Woods. The illustrated catalogue of the valuable collection of pictures, and other works of art of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and mediaeval periods; also, a choice collection of coins and medals of that eminent connoisseur, John Watkins Brett, Esq., of Hanover Square, deceased, 1864: title page (John Watkins Brett) Descriptive catalogue of the collection of celebrated paintings, including works of the first class by the old masters of the Italian, Venetian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French schools, which were offered the last session of Congress, 1835: title page verso (J.W. Brett) Dictionary of national biography, viewed online February 28, 2018 (Brett, John Watkins; born 1805; died 1863; telegraphic engineer; born in Bristol, son of a cabinetmaker; said to be the founder of submarine telegraphy; author of: On the origin and progress of the oceanic telegraph, 1858) Telegraphic journal, Jan. 2, 1864: page 6 (John Watkins Brett; founder of the submarine telegraph; early on, was a painter and made a tour through America; had a gallery of old masters and a collection of antiquities, bronzes, coins, ojects of vertu, and books; died 3 December 1863) Rave reviews : American art and its critics, 1826-1925, 2000: page 38 (British art dealer John Watkins Brett leased galleries of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, New York, for much of 1832-1837 for display of his large collection of old master paintings)