William Ascroft
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William Ascroft (1832–1914) was a late 19th-century British landscape painter best known for his colour sketches commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts of sunsets over Chelsea in England in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of colour photography. Ascroft was known to sketch the sky at sunset regularly, and made a total of more than 500 works detailing the red skies post-eruption.{{cite web |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/painting-krakatoa-sunsets.amp |title=See the Soft Aquarelle Watercolors That Resulted From Krakatoa's Big Bang |work=Atlas Obscura |last=Schultz |first=Isaac |date=13 April 2020 |access-date=22 June 2022}}
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External links
- [https://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?source=1888-156 On-line images of some of Ascroft's sunset sketches]
- [http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/info.php?s=ascroft&type=all&t=objects Chromolithographic plates from: The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society edited by G J Symons, London, 1888.]
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