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Bristol.- Müller (William James also spelt Muller, English landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School, 1812-1845) [Tour of North Wales], c. 21pp. (1f. a fragment only, largely cut away) of autograph manuscript notes by Müller, documenting his 1833 tour of Wales, with one leaf featuring notes on Pandy's Mill [see subsequent lot], several small pen and ink sketches accompany other notes on the trip, including: how to make a mark in London as a painter, "I think if a person is any way desirous of covering art with any kind of eclat in London as an artist he should try to fix on some subject that the people should not easily forget it or him, now I think that a subject from nature is arguably as likely to attract notice as composition...", browned, loose, blue cloth boards, 8vo & v.s., 1832 & [1833]. ⁂ "I think nearly all things visable or invisable become beautiful to the human mind from certain associations." -Müller. Visits Aberystwyth, "Aberystwyth has a lovely beach... the Castle is a good object... what a glorious part of the creation", Tally llyn, "a sight of Cader Idris", Dolgelly, "Trois fynddlyn a wretched place", North Walls, Crickhowell, Redcliff etc. In 1833 Müller first exhibited at the Royal Academy and, in the same year, he twice visited Wales, the second time on a long walking tour with Samuel Jackson and John Skinner Prout " [Oxford DNB]. Müller later revisited Pandy Mill with his 1834 painting of the same subject, which is now in the Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives (acc. no. K810). [See also subsequent lot].