John Waterhouse biography

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, in the artist's family. In X family returned to England. In the beginning of the x, before entering the royal academic school, Waterhouse helped his father in his studio. Waterhouse studied painting and sculpture under the guidance of the artist Pickersgil. Waterhouse's early works on classical topics in the spirit of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadem and Frederick Leiff were shown at the Royal Academy of Art, the Society of British Artists and the Dudley painting gallery.

At the end of X and X, Waterhouse made several trips to Italy. The artists Arthur Rakham and Patrick Kolfield lived there. The picturesque works of this period show the growth of Waterhouse's interest in topics related to prerafealites, especially to the creation of images of tragic or powerful fatal women of the circo of invidiosis,; Cleopatra,; A circoy that lures the Odyssey, and other paintings, as well as to the painting of the openier.

Waterhouse’s thesis was the painting by Nereid, the master was finalized, the final version of the picture in the middle of X Waterhaus is exhibited a lot in the Grosvanor Gallery, the new gallery, as well as at provincial exhibitions in Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Pictures of this period were widely shown in England and abroad as part of the international movement of the Symbolists.

At the beginning, X Waterhaus begins to write portraits. Since the X, he has been actively involved in various public organizations of artists and artists in England. The artist’s painting is often referred to as pre -Raphaelites, although Waterhouse did not formally belong to this course. During his life, Waterhouse painted more than two hundred paintings on mythological, historical and literary plots.

Waterhouse shared the interest of the Pre -Raphaelites in plots borrowed from poetry and mythology. He accurately conveyed the drama of the moment, demonstrated the brilliant possession of the composition and picturesque technology. However, the artist owes his enduring popularity to the charm of his thoughtful models, it is believed that when writing the “lady from Shalot”, the model was the artist’s wife.

In the years, Waterhouse creates a number of paintings based on literary and mythological plots of Miranda, Tristan and Isolde, Psyche, Persephone and others. In these paintings, the artist writes his favorite model, recently identified by Waterhouse’s work researchers, Ken and Katie Beikr, like Miss Muriel Foster. Very little is known about Waterhouse’s private life - only a few letters have survived to our time and, in fact, for many years, the personalities of its models remained a mystery.

From the memoirs of contemporaries, it is also known that Mary Lloyd, the model of Lord Lorde Leighton Fluing June, posed for Waterhouse. Despite the suffering from the illness, Waterhouse over the past ten years of life continued to actively engage in painting until his death from cancer in a year.

The artist’s wife Esther Waterhouse experienced her husband for 27 years, having died in a private sanatorium in