James Collinson

James Collinson ( born May 9, 1825 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire; † January 24, 1881 in Camberwell, London) was an English painter.

Collinson was born the son of a bookseller and printer. He went to London in 1846 and was first issued in the following year with the painting The Charity Boy's Debut at the Royal Academy of Arts. This image liked Dante Gabriel Rossetti so much that he suggested him for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose founding members in 1848 he finally counted.

In 1848 he became engaged to Christina Rossetti and converted from Catholicism because of them, which he had shortly before facing the Church of England. In 1850 he returned to his Catholic faith, which led to end relationship with Rossetti. In the same year, he joined in the belief that the Pre-Raphaelites would damage Christianity, from the brotherhood of. In 1853 he was the art for a short time at all, a study began on Jesuit Stonyhurst College and planned to become a priest. Already in 1855 he gave it back, however, and began to paint again.

By the time Collinson exhibited regularly at exhibitions of the Royal Society of British Artists. Occasionally, he traveled to France and stayed there in the late 1870s for a slightly longer stay. In 1881 he died in London of pneumonia.