John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

John William Waterhouse

Born: 6 April 1849, Rome, Italy
Died: 10 February 1917 (aged 67), London, England
Nationality: British
Field: Painter
Training: Royal Academy
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite
Works: Hylas and the Nymphs, The Lady of Shalott, Ophelia
Influenced by: Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Frederic Leighton

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John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter who is most famous for his paintings of female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology.

Waterhouse was one of the final Pre-Raphaelite artists, being most productive in the latter decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th, long after the era of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Because of this, he has been referred to as "the modern Pre-Raphaelite", and incorporated techniques borrowed from the French Impressionists into his work.

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