William Miller (1796-1882). Engraver. One of the most prolific and highly regarded of Turner 's engravers. His first work with Turner consisted of four plates for Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England (18 14-26), and he had executed more than 70 plates after Turner by the time of the artist's death in 1851, including four for Rogers's Poems (see Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner). In the third volume of Modern Painters (1856), Ruskin expressed his opinion of Miller's work 'on the whole, he is the best engraver of Turner whom we have' ( Works, 5.157). (For further biographical information see Hunnisett, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers, pp. 64-65.)