John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse RA ( born April 6, 1849 in Rome, † February 10, 1917 in London) was a British painter, which is attributed to both the academic realism as well as the group of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Life

Waterhouse was born in Rome, the son of painter William Waterhouse and his wife, the painter Isabella. In 1854 his family moved to London. First he learned to paint from his father, in 1870 he began studying at the Royal Academy. Even his early works were exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and the Dudley Gallery. In 1895 he was elected a full member of the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.

When his most famous painting is considered The Lady of Shalott; the first of the three versions is created in 1888. For this he was inspired by the eponymous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

At the age of nearly 68 years, John William Waterhouse died on 10 February 1917 in London. His final resting place he found on the Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

Reception

"On the figments of Waterhouse critics judged times euphoric, sometimes devastating. One critic grumbled, the staff of his pictures entstamme neither " dreams still daylight "; another raved, the art of Waterhouse live " in a self-created world." On another point, so all agreed was born in Rome in 1847 painter had created a world that was fitted into neither the fantastic yet the reality. In his painting witches, hybrid creatures and fairy tale characters were given a new home. He was a master at giving the Extraordinary a casual, natural shape. "

Gallery

Eurydice (1880 )

Diogenes (1882 )

The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius (1883 )

Magic Circle (1886 )

The Lady of Shalott (1888 )

Circe Invidiosa (1892 )

La Belle Dame sans Merci (1893 )

Cecilia of Rome (1895 )

Hylas and the Nymphs (1896 )

Flora and the Zephyrs (1898 )

The Mermaid (1900)

Echo and Narcissus (1903 )

The Danaids (1903 )

Boreas (1903 )

The Decameron (1916 )

Miranda - The Tempest (1916 ), the inspiration for the music video of Madonna Frozen