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Detail from Ariadne (Mk41) Painting ID:: 25664
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John William Waterhouse Detail from Ariadne (Mk41)
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Study for The Awakening of Adonis (mk41) Painting ID:: 25665
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John William Waterhouse Study for The Awakening of Adonis (mk41) c.1900
13 1/2x26 1/2in
Courtesy Sotheby's
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Miss Margaret Henderson (mk41) Painting ID:: 25670
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John William Waterhouse Miss Margaret Henderson (mk41) 1900
49 3/4x38 3/4in
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Mrs A.P.Henderson (mk41) Painting ID:: 25671
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John William Waterhouse Mrs A.P.Henderson (mk41) 1908
30x25in
Courtesy Sotheby's
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A Meraid (mk41) Painting ID:: 25674
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John William Waterhouse A Meraid (mk41) 1901
38 1/2x26 1/4
London,Royal Academy of Arts
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John William Waterhouse
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English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1917
English painter. His father was a minor English painter working in Rome. Waterhouse entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1870. He exhibited at the Society of British Artists from 1872 and at the Royal Academy from 1874. From 1877 to the 1880s he regularly travelled abroad, particularly to Italy. In the early 1870s he had produced a few uncharacteristic Orientalist keepsake paintings, but most of his works in this period are scenes from ancient history or classical genre subjects, similar to the work of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (e.g. Consulting the Oracle, c. 1882; London, Tate). However, Waterhouse consistently painted on a larger scale than Alma-Tadema. His brushwork is bolder, his sunlight casts harsher shadows and his history paintings are more dramatic. |
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