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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

A Naiad (1893) Naiad John William Waterhouse (1849-1917): A Naiad or Hylas with a Nymph. 1893

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848-1854) The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. Hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts. They called him "Sir Sloshua", believing that his broad tec...