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ID: 500456076 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500456076			Record Type: Person

Brett, John Watkins (engineer, 1805-1863, active New York City (New York state, United States))

Names:
	Brett, John Watkins (preferred,U,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	John Watkins Brett (U,display)
	Brett, J. B. (John Watkins) (U)

Nationalities:
	undetermined (preferred)

Roles:
	engineers (preferred)
	collector
	painters

Gender: unknown


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Bristol (Prowers county, Colorado, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Unidentified Named People and Firms

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Brett, John Watkins (I,U)

Biographies:


	(engineer, 1805-1863, active New York City (New York state, United States)) ..... [GRL Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Brett, J. B. (John Watkins) ........	[GRL]
.....................................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.....................................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Brett, John Watkins ........	[GRL Preferred]
.......................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.......................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

John Watkins Brett ........	[GRL, VP]
.....................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.....................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)

Subject: ........	[GRL]
....................	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 co 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, w title page verso (J.W. Brett)
....................	DNB: Oxford National Biography [online] (2004-) (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)
....................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018028616
....................	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)
....................	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)

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