John Waterhouse: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Nonfiction, Art & Architecture
| Author: | Raya Yotova | ISBN: | 1230002676944 |
| Publisher: | Classic & Annotated | Publication: | October 14, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Raya Yotova |
| ISBN: | 1230002676944 |
| Publisher: | Classic & Annotated |
| Publication: | October 14, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Concise, essential and annotated by Raya Yotova, this Art Book contains annotated reproductions of John William Waterhouse paintings a drawings, date and interesting facts page below.
John William Waterhouse was a painter of classical, historical, and literary subjects. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. In 1884, his Royal Academy submission "Consulting the Oracle" brought him favourable reviews.
The latter painting reveals Waterhouse's growing interest in themes associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly tragic or powerful femmes fatales, as well as plein-air painting. Other examples of paintings depicting a femme fatale are Circe Invidiosa, Cleopatra, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and several versions of Lamia. In 1885 Waterhouse was elected an associate of the Royal Academy and a full member in 1895. His RA diploma work was A Mermaid.
In the mid-1880s Waterhouse began exhibiting with the Grosvenor Gallery and its successor, the New Gallery, as well as at provincial exhibitions in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Paintings of this period, such as Mariamne, were exhibited widely in England and abroad as part of the international symbolist movement. In the 1890s Waterhouse began to exhibit portraits.
Despite suffering from increasing frailty during the final decade of his life, Waterhouse continued painting until his death from cancer in 1917.
Concise, essential and annotated by Raya Yotova, this Art Book contains annotated reproductions of John William Waterhouse paintings a drawings, date and interesting facts page below.
John William Waterhouse was a painter of classical, historical, and literary subjects. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. In 1884, his Royal Academy submission "Consulting the Oracle" brought him favourable reviews.
The latter painting reveals Waterhouse's growing interest in themes associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly tragic or powerful femmes fatales, as well as plein-air painting. Other examples of paintings depicting a femme fatale are Circe Invidiosa, Cleopatra, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and several versions of Lamia. In 1885 Waterhouse was elected an associate of the Royal Academy and a full member in 1895. His RA diploma work was A Mermaid.
In the mid-1880s Waterhouse began exhibiting with the Grosvenor Gallery and its successor, the New Gallery, as well as at provincial exhibitions in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Paintings of this period, such as Mariamne, were exhibited widely in England and abroad as part of the international symbolist movement. In the 1890s Waterhouse began to exhibit portraits.
Despite suffering from increasing frailty during the final decade of his life, Waterhouse continued painting until his death from cancer in 1917.
