Etty, William, a celebrated painter, born at York; rose from being a printer's apprentice to the position of a Royal Academician; considered by Ruskin to have wasted his great powers as a colourist on inadequate and hackneyed subjects (1787-1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ettrick Shepherd * Eubœa