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  John William Waterhouse Encyclopedia Article @ Vainly.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of Waterhouse's most famous paintings is Frederic Leighton, a study of South Kensington, who dies of grief when John William Waterhouse will not love her.
Another of Waterhouse's favorite subjects was 2 Later career; the most famous of his paintings of Ophelia depicts her just before her death, putting flowers in her hair as she sits on a tree branch leaning over a lake.
Waterhouse could not finish the series of Ophelia paintings because he was gravely ill with Ophelia by Elaine of Astolat.
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 John William Waterhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849 – February 10, 1917) was a British Pre-raphaelite painter most famous for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature.
Another of Waterhouse's favorite subjects was Ophelia; the most famous of his paintings of Ophelia depicts her just before her death, putting flowers in her hair as she sits on a tree branch leaning over a lake.
Waterhouse could not finish the series of Ophelia paintings because he was gravely ill with cancer by 1915.
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 WATERHOUSE: The Art and Life of John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Waterhouse, known to his family and friends as Nino, was born in Italy in 1849 to English parents, moving to London at an early age.
Waterhouse was a well-respected and popular artist during his lifetime, and his paintings were bought by wealthy private collectors and by major museums in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Waterhouse's legacy had been somewhat neglected for most of the 20th century: his art, along with that created by many of his contemporaries, fell rapidly out of fashion as a result of the impact of World War I and the subsequent changes in British society over the ensuing decades.
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 John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
John William Waterhouse was born in Rome to English parents, both of whom were painters, and lived there for the early years of his life absorbing Italy's classical heritage.
John William Waterhouse painted more than 300 pictures and studies, and drew hundreds of sketches over a period of forty-seven years between 1870 when he was a student in the Royal Academy Schools and 1917 when he died in his studio home in St John's Wood.
Waterhouse's creative genius was to reach its peak in the 1890's and during this decade he produced most of his most memorable masterpieces.
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 John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917: An Overview
"Waterhouse was a highly eclectic artist of the generation which succeeded that dominated by Leighton, Watts, Burne-Jones and Alma-Tadema.
Waterhouse, like Moore, was an artist who, once he had found his style, stuck to it for the rest of his career.
"Waterhouse," says Wood, "was a reasonably social man, but too self-effacing to talk much about himself or his art" (244) and we do not even know the identity of the model who appears repeatedly in his work.
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 John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Waterhouse has orchestrated a rich harmony of colours in the composition of thick groves of trees against the sky and streams of dainty fountains in the flowered grass.
Waterhouse is renowned as a masterful story-teller, instinctively capturing the most striking moment of a narrative, and an important aspect of the present picture is the theme of regeneration, as embodied in the Greek myth of Persephone.
The first picture John Waterhouse exhibited at the Royal Academy was "Sleep and his Half-Brother Death", inspired by the death of his two younger brothers from tuberculosis.
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 John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, where his parents, both painters, lived for some years.
Waterhouse became ARA in 1885 and RA in 1895.
A portrait of Waterhouse by Alma Tadema is in the National Portrait Gallery.
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 ArtMagick: John William Waterhouse (British, 1849-1917)
John William Waterhouse was born in 1849 in Rome, where his father worked as a painter.
Waterhouse painted primarily in oils, yet he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1883, resigning in 1889.
Waterhouse's great-nephew, Dr John Physick, has carried the Waterhouse torch into the 21st century and has shared some of his memories of his family on this website.
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 John William Waterhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Classified as both classical and pre-raphaelite, John William Waterhouse has been called the greatest of both depicting beautiful subjects of mythology, legend and poetry (favoring Keats, Homer and Tennyson).
Waterhouse had a fascination with the "femme fatale" and if men appeared at all in any of his paintings, it was usually as a sufferer or as a victim of one of his fatal beauties...
Waterhouse painted over 300 pictures and studies as well as many sketches before he died, brush in hand, in 1917.
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 Sleep and Health - John William Waterhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Waterhouse in another painting titled A Sick Child Brought into the Temple of Aesculapius also depicted the two children, believed to be the older children of a Lady Clare.
Waterhouse married Esther Kenworthy, who was 25 when he was 34, in 1883.
Waterhouse is considered one of the best British artists of the last half of the 19th century.
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 John William Waterhouse: Comprehensive Painting Gallery of Artworks w Detail Descriptions, Location, Paintings Facts, ...
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917), affectionately known as Nino in his younger days, was born in Rome on the 6th of April, 1849.
Waterhouse went on to paint well over 200 paintings depicting classical mythogolgy, historical and literary subjects, particularly those of Roman mythology and classic English poets such as Keats and Tennyson.
Waterhouse is one of the rare artists who became popular and relatively well-off financially when he was alive.
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 John William Waterhouse - English Culture
Waterhouse's inspiration for these paintings is Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott.
While other artists have painted her, Waterhouse's renditions are among the most famous, particularly his 1888 version of the flame-haired Elaine in a boat, which is currently on display at London's Tate Gallery.
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was perhaps born to paint, having painters for parents.
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 John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849 –; February 10, 1917) was a British pre-raphaelite painter, best known for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature.
When John was 5 years old the family moved to South Kensington near to the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum.
Waterhouse's most famous painting is The Lady of Shalott, a maiden who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her.
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 John William Waterhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John William Waterhouse was born in Rome in 1849, where his parents, both of whom were painters, had lived for years.
It is believed that Waterhouse's step-sister Mary Waterhouse Somerville was the model for The Lady of Shalott (1888).
It is believed that she was Waterhouse's model for many paintings including 'I am Half-Sick of Shadows', said The Lady of Shalott (1915) provided here.
www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/w/waterhouse.htm   (345 words)

  
 John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
John William Waterhouse (Nino to his family) was born in Rome a year after the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Waterhouse was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1885 and a full Academician ten years later.
Waterhouse is now amongst the most highly prized of late-Victorian painters.
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 lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other ...
Waterhouse diverged from the Pre-Raphaelite painters, particularly in his approach to the handling of paint.
Where the members of the brotherhood usually cultured a smooth, blended finish to their paintings, Waterhouse delighted in the sensuality of paint and his works are textured with painterly brushstrokes and obvious surface markings of discrete areas of color.
Also like the Pre-Raphaelite artists, Waterhouse took great pleasure in the portrayal of beautiful women in detailed costumes and luxurious fabrics, as well as scenes depicting the visual bounty of the natural world and the English countryside, particularly in the Spring when that other beauty, Mother Nature, is really strutting her stuff.
www.linesandcolors.com /2006/04/01/john-william-waterhouse   (799 words)

  
 CGFA: John William Waterhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John William Waterhouse was born in Rome to British parents on April 6, 1849.
Waterhouse, known to his family as 'Nino', was an avid scholar of ancient history during his youth, and unlike most members of the Royal Academy his only tutorage in art was from his father.
His first submission of a drawing to the R.A. was rejected, prompting him to seek admission as a sculptor.
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 Wikinfo | John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849-February 10, 1917) was a pre-raphaelite painter, best known for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature.
He was born in Rome to William and Isabela Waterhouse, both painters
Waterhouse continued to paint until his death in 1917.
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 'Echo and Narcissus', John William Waterhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was trapped by the sight of his own beauty and died.
Yellow narcissus flowers grew where he died and Waterhouse has included these in the painting.
Waterhouse was of a younger generation than Rossetti and Burne-Jones.
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /walker/collections/20c/waterhouse.asp   (103 words)

  
 John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
One of the last English Romantic painters, John William Waterhouse studied at the Royal Academy Schools in England and began exhibiting in 1874.
William Blake, Fables by John Gay (London: John Stockdale, 1793), vol.
John William Waterhouse: Comprehensive Painting Archive with Descriptions, Paintings Location, Interesting Facts,...
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 John William Waterhouse 1897
Waterhouse was scarcely thirty-four when “The Favourites of the Emperor Honorious” was produced by
It showed a very original way of dealing with historical record, and in its search for truth in regard to detail came very near to what might have been accepted from Tadema.
Waterhouse’s works may be suggested or stimulated by fact or legend, but he has contributed a distinctly original form to the poetic art of the reign.
www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk /Contemporary/Waterhouse.htm   (993 words)

  
 Benning's Writing Pad: John William Waterhouse: Something To Cleanse The Palate!
"Although often classified as a Pre-raphaelite for his style and themes, Waterhouse is truly a Neo-Classic painter [I would argue that he was better than that.
This is the last painting that Waterhouse finished before his death.
There's a painting by Waterhouse called "Boreas" which is my personal favorite.
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 John William Waterhouse Online
Original works by John William Waterhouse available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
John William Waterhouse in the Art Renewal Center
All images and text on this John William Waterhouse page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 John William Waterhouse Posters Prints - Ophelia, 1894 Art Art Print - Artist: John William Waterhouse - Poster Size: ...
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 John William Waterhouse
He was admitted to the Royal Academy in 1885 and made an academician in 1895.
His work was influenced highly by the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
In his lifetime painted over two hundred paintings among which may be noted ar Hylas and the Nymphs, The Lady of Shalott, Penelope and the Suitors, Sleep and His Half-Brother, Death, Ophelia, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Echo and Narcissus.
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 WATERHOUSE: John William Waterhouse: Paintings
The Art of John William Waterhouse (British, (149-1917)
Waterhouse's career spanned five decades: his earliest known works date from the early 1870s, his latest from just before his death in February 1917.
Waterhouse painted primarily in oils, rarely in watercolour.
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