John Collier (artist)
John Maler Collier ( born January 28, 1850 in London, † April 11, 1934 ) was a British writer and painter in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Life and Family
Collier was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his time and came from an artistic and politically active family. His grandfather, John Collier was a Quaker and a member of parliament, his father ( also an MP ) was Attorney General ( in about: Attorney General ), member of the Privy Council and First Lord Monkswell, but also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Colliers elder brother, the second Lord Monkswell, was deputy war minister and chairman of the London County Council.
The family was closely associated with the great natural scientist Huxley family. John Collier married two of the daughters of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, the President of the Royal Society. He was also "on terms of intimate friendship" ( an intimate friend ) of the writer Leonard Huxley.
Colliers first wife was Marian Huxley (1859-1887), also a successful painter. After the birth of their daughter Joyce, she suffered from depression. They should be treated in Paris, but withdrew a pneumonia and died 1887. Joyce later became a painter of portrait miniatures and a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters.
Shortly afterwards married Marian Collier younger sister Ethel ( 1866-1941 ). This was banned in England until 1907, so that had to be the wedding in Norway. With Ethel Collier had two children, another daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier (1890-1976), who was British Ambassador in Norway 1941-51.
Training
Collier went to school in Eton College, after which he studied under Sir Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Art in Paris with Jean -Paul Laurens and in Munich. Also, were Sir Lawrence Alma -Tadema and Sir John Everett Millais conveyor Necklaces and influenced his later work. By Millais, for example, he took over the operation to set the sitter in addition to the nascent emergence in Portrait to consider both from a distance and then continue the painting.
Collier was one of the 24 founding members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, of which he was vice president. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He exhibited no fewer than 130 paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts and 165 in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
His educational work includes The primers of Art ( 1882), A Manual of Oil Painting (1886 ) and The Art of Portrait Painting (1905 ). In 1920 him the Order of the British Empire was awarded.
Works
Pharaoh's Handmaidens
The Land Baby
Priestess of Delphi
Unknown title
In the Venusberg Tannhäuser ( Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg )