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John William Waterhouse
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1917
English painter. His father was a minor English painter working in Rome. Waterhouse entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1870. He exhibited at the Society of British Artists from 1872 and at the Royal Academy from 1874. From 1877 to the 1880s he regularly travelled abroad, particularly to Italy. In the early 1870s he had produced a few uncharacteristic Orientalist keepsake paintings, but most of his works in this period are scenes from ancient history or classical genre subjects, similar to the work of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (e.g. Consulting the Oracle, c. 1882; London, Tate). However, Waterhouse consistently painted on a larger scale than Alma-Tadema. His brushwork is bolder, his sunlight casts harsher shadows and his history paintings are more dramatic.
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Painting ID:: 27670
The Magic Circle
mk58
1886
oil on canvas
182.9x127cm
Tate,London
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Painting ID:: 27674
Cleopatra
mk58
1888
Originally oil on canvas
coloured Goupilgravure
published in "The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare s Heroines
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Painting ID:: 27676
A Roman Offering
mk58
c.1891
oil on canvas
49.8x20.3cm
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Painting ID:: 27677
ulysses and the Sirens
mk58
1891
oil on canvas
100.6x201.7cm
National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne
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Painting ID:: 27678
Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus
mk58
oil on canvas
149x92cm
Oldham Art Gallery
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John William Waterhouse
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1917
English painter. His father was a minor English painter working in Rome. Waterhouse entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1870. He exhibited at the Society of British Artists from 1872 and at the Royal Academy from 1874. From 1877 to the 1880s he regularly travelled abroad, particularly to Italy. In the early 1870s he had produced a few uncharacteristic Orientalist keepsake paintings, but most of his works in this period are scenes from ancient history or classical genre subjects, similar to the work of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (e.g. Consulting the Oracle, c. 1882; London, Tate). However, Waterhouse consistently painted on a larger scale than Alma-Tadema. His brushwork is bolder, his sunlight casts harsher shadows and his history paintings are more dramatic.
. Related Artists to John William Waterhouse: | SASSOFERRATO | Joseph Israels | Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence | Petrich, Soma Orlai | Lhermitte, Leon |
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