William Dyce

William Dyce RA ( born September 19, 1806 Aberdeen, † February 14, 1864 in London) was a Scottish painter who had a significant influence on the art classes in England.

William Dyce graduated from Marischal College in Aberdeen and then took against the will of his father, who was a doctor, studying art at the Royal Academy Schools in London. Then Dyce undertook several trips to Italy and studied the painters of the early Italian Renaissance. In 1825 he stayed for the first time in Rome and returned in 1827 back to life for one and a half years in the Italian capital. During this time he came through his friendship with Johann Friedrich Overbeck with the Nazarene Art in touch.

Dyce was a devout Catholic, and his work is mainly determined by the portraiture as well as historical and religious subjects; in his frescoes he presented primarily allegorical figures and saints dar. 1827 he had his first exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. With his " Madonna and Child " in 1828 he founded the style of Präraffaelitismus in England.

Dyce was inducted into the Royal Society, Edinburgh, 1832. In 1840 he became head of the newly established Government School of Design, later the Royal College of Art, London. In 1843 he retired from there and became in 1844 the first professor of Fine Art at King's College London. Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, he was in 1848.

1846 Dyce murals in the House of Lords entrusted, and 1848 such in the Robing Rooms Queen. Dyce was an accomplished musician and glass painter, both leaders in the High Church movement.

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