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Abbott Handerson Thayer Born: August 12, 1849, Boston, Massachusetts Died: May 29, 1921 (aged 71) Nationality: American Field: Painting Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as shown by the fact that his paintings are in the most important U.S. art collections. In the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a major book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Disclosures. First published by Macmillan in 1909, then reissued in 1918, it had a widespread impact on the use of military camouflage during World War I. He also influenced American art through his efforts as a teacher, taking on apprentices in his Ne...

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 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse