Artist: Walter Crane Painting: The Renaissance of Venus Introduction: 1877
Tempera on canvas 138.4 x 184.1 cm(54 1/2 x 721/2 in)
Tate Gallery London (mk63)
English Golden Age Illustrator, 1845-1915
English painter, illustrator, designer, writer and teacher. He showed artistic inclinations as a boy and was encouraged to draw by his father, the portrait painter and miniaturist Thomas Crane (1808-59). A series of illustrations to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott (Cambridge, MA, Harvard U., Houghton Lib.) was shown first to Ruskin, who praised the use of colour, and then to the engraver William James Linton, to whom Crane was apprenticed in 1859. From 1859 to 1862 Crane learnt a technique of exact and economical draughtsmanship on woodblocks.
. Related Artists to Walter Crane : | SPADA, Lionello | Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna | Henry Gastineau | FRANCKEN, Ambrosius | Alonzo Cano |