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Feeding the Swans. Edith Hayllar (1860–1948) was a British artist born to James Hayllar, [1] an acclaimed Victorian artist known for his genre paintings. Edith Hayllar had four brothers and four sisters, of whom, Jessica Hayllar (1858–1940), [2] Mary Hayllar (1863–1950), [3] and Kate Hayllar (fl. 1883–1900), also became notable artists in their own right; all received their training ...
Upload file; Search. Search. Appearance. Donate; ... The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts ... List of modern ...
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy , education, museology , geology , botany , ornithology , literature, history, and myth.
Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which made the United Kingdom one of the most powerful and advanced nations in the world.
In 1843, when she was 11 years old, Henrietta fell in love with the 27-year-old historical painter Edward Matthew Ward (no relation); they married secretly in May 1848, aided by the groom's friend Wilkie Collins — so that her maiden and married names were the same. (Traditional sources occasionally refer to her as "Henrietta Mary Ada Ward Ward.")
McGowan attended classes at the Victorian Artists Society with her future husband Colin around this time. [3] She was a founding member of the Contemporary Art Society and later a three-terms President of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors . [ 6 ]
Under Leighton's influence, he began as a painter of classical scenes; then "he turned to the more profitable pastures of portrait painting, and genre pictures of pretty women and children." [ 1 ] In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens , who as Kate Perugini [ 2 ] pursued her own artistic career, sometimes ...
William Edward Frost (self-portrait), 1839. Venus and Cupid. William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era.Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude.