Which Victorian artist painted “The Boyhood of Raleigh”?
"misremembers and transforms the meaning of the painting, a copy of which hung on his bedroom wall when he was a child. Elements of the picture appear on the cover of the Talk Talk album ""It's My Life"". The painting is also reproduced in part on the cover of the 1982 single ""Almost With You/Life Speeds Up"" by The Church. The Boyhood of Raleigh The Boyhood of Raleigh is a painting by John Everett Millais, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871. It came to epitomise the culture of heroic imperialism in late Victorian Britain and in British"
"Sydney Richmond Burleigh Sydney Richmond Burleigh (July 7, 1853 – February 25, 1931) was an American artist, known primarily for his watercolors but also for his oil paintings, drawings, illustrations, and building and furniture designs. He was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a descendent of the Pilgrim William Bradford. In 1875, he married Sarah Drew Wilkinson (1851–1952) and, with her encouragement and wealth, became a full-time artist. He studied in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens from 1876 to 1880 and then returned to Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Burleigh rose to national prominence after receiving a"
"Sydney Richmond Burleigh Sydney Richmond Burleigh (July 7, 1853 – February 25, 1931) was an American artist, known primarily for his watercolors but also for his oil paintings, drawings, illustrations, and building and furniture designs. He was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a descendent of the Pilgrim William Bradford. In 1875, he married Sarah Drew Wilkinson (1851–1952) and, with her encouragement and wealth, became a full-time artist. He studied in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens from 1876 to 1880 and then returned to Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Burleigh rose to national prominence after receiving a"
"the collections of """"Hartlepool Museums and Heritage Service"""", at Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Liverpool, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital in Liverpool and the """"Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum"""", Preston Manor, 194 Preston Road, Brighton. Arthur Elsley Arthur John Elsley (20 November 1860 – 19 February 1952) was an English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, famous for his idyllic genre scenes of playful children and their pets. He achieved great popularity during his life and much of his work appeared in calendars, magazines and books. Elsley was born in London, one of six children of"
"Robert Field (painter) Robert Field (1769–1819) was a painter who was born in London, England, and died in Kingston, Jamaica. He was one of America’s leading miniaturists. Along with being the most important painter in Nova Scotia at the beginning of the 19th century, at this time, Field was probably the most professionally trained painter to settle in Canada. Daphne Foskett in ""A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters"" (1972) wrote that Field was, ""one of the best American miniaturists of his time."" He worked in the conventional neo-classic portrait style of Henry Raeburn and Gilbert Stuart. His most famous works"
"George Ogilvy Reid George Ogilvy Reid (1851-1928) was a Scottish landscape and portrait artist operating in the late 19th and early 20th century. He lived his entire life in Leith, the harbour area of Edinburgh. Born in Leith in 1851, he originally studied to be an engraver. He later studied art at the Trustee’s Academy on Picardy Place (the forerunner of the Edinburgh College of Art). In October 1891 he received a Royal Commission to paint the baptism of Queen Victoria’s grandchild, Prince Maurice of Battenburg. In 1896 he was sculpted by David Watson Stevenson. He died on 11 April"
"planning. The painting was hugely successful at the time, and was very widely circulated in reproductions. Millais' son says he once saw a reproduction in ""the hut of a Hottentot shepherd"" in South Africa. Along with Millais' earlier painting ""The Boyhood of Raleigh"" it came to symbolise Britain's self-image as a nation of heroic explorers and empire-builders. Millais received a letter from the explorer Sir George Nares in which he said that the painting had had a powerful effect on the spirit of the nation. The painting was quickly referenced in cartoons. In October 1874 ""Punch"" published a pastiche by"
"in the Victoria and Albert Museum, including a sketch of a wall decoration by John Gregory Crace. Frederick Smallfield Frederick Smallfield (16 October 1829 – 10 September 1915) was a Victorian English oil and watercolour artist, whose work shows a Pre-Raphaelite influence. Smallfield trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the late 1840s, at the same time as various members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, although he seems not to have been closely associated with them. In 1858, Smallfield's watercolours were praised in ""Academy Notes"" by John Ruskin. In 1860, he was elected Associate of the Watercolour Society (ARWS). He contributed"
"Pauline, Lady Trevelyan Pauline, Lady Trevelyan (""née"" Paulina Jermyn; 25 January 1816, Hawkedon13 May 1866, Neuchâtel) was an English painter, noted for single-handedly making Wallington Hall in Northumberland a centre of High Victorian cultural life, and for enchanting by her intellect and art John Ruskin, Swinburne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, John Everett Millais, and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She was married in May 1835 to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet. Paulina (known as Pauline) Jermyn was the eldest child of George Bitton Jermyn (1789–1857), of"
"of celebrities of the 60s was published, Jim featured prominently. He was also commissioned to paint a picture for the 1969/1971 book ""The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics"". Other galleries who acquired his work were Leeds City Art Gallery, Bowes Museum and Thomas's College, York. He was also noticed by collectors abroad and his work was collected by Museums and Galleries as far apart as Caracas, Venezuela, and Zacreb, Yugoslavia. He won the International Best Primitive Painter Award in 1973, with his painting Boy with Horse. James Lloyd (artist) Frederick James Lloyd (12 October 1905, Alsager, England – 1974), more commonly known"
"The former two brothers founded the Columbian Academy of Painting in New York, and Andrew was the leading Scottish miniaturist of his day. The generation of painters that followed Raeburn included David Watson, John Watson Gordon and David Wilkie who became one of the most influential British artists of the century. From the mid-nineteenth century, portrait painting, particularity the miniature, declined as an art, photography also began to influence painting. Major figures who worked in portraiture and came to prominence in the second half of the century included Francis Grant, Robert Scott Lauder, William Quiller Orchardson and John Pettie. In"
"Charles Blackman Charles Raymond Blackman (12 August 1928 – 20 August 2018) was an Australian painter, noted for the ""Schoolgirl, Avonsleigh"" and ""Alice in Wonderland"" series of the 1950s. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval, and Clifton Pugh. He was married for 27 years to author, essayist, poet, librettist and patron of the arts Barbara Blackman. Blackman, born 12 August 1928 in Sydney, left school at 13 and worked as an illustrator with ""The Sun"" newspaper while attending night classes at"
"studies, often of children. The majority were exhibited at the British Institution. Usually small, they included numerous pencil sketches, sometimes incorporating an ink or watercolour wash. Links to online representations are given where available. John Partridge (artist) John Partridge (20 November 1789 – 25 November 1872) was a British artist and portrait painter. Named 'portrait painter-extraordinary' to Queen Victoria, his pictures depict many of the notable figures of his time. Born in Glasgow, he was the second son of twelve children of Samuel Partridge. His brother Richard Partridge became the President of the Royal College of Surgeons; his nephew Sir"
"of porcelain to Derby Museum including the ""Prentice Plate"" which he had been lucky enough to buy in London. The ""Prentice Plate"" was used by apprentices at porcelain painting in Derby and this plate was a demonstration of William Billingsley's skills when he worked there. This plate is now on display at Derby Museum. John Haslem (artist) John Haslem (1808–1884), was an English china and enamel painter, and writer. He painted many portrait miniatures of Queen Victoria, the Royal Family and other nobility. Haslem was born in 1808 at Carrington in Cheshire (now part of Greater Manchester). He left home"
"Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Countess of Cork (née Savile; 13 September 1699 – 21 September 1758) was a British noble and court official, as well as a caricaturist and portrait painter. Several of her studies and paintings were made of her daughters. Chatsworth House, which descended through her daughter Charlotte, holds a collection of 24 of her works of art. Boyle had a great interest in the arts and was a patron of David Garrick and George Frideric Handel. She was one of Queen Caroline's Ladies of the Bedchamber. Savile Row, developed at"
"Matthew Ridley Corbet Matthew Ridley Corbet (20 May 1850 –– 25 June 1902) was a Victorian neoclassical painter. Corbet was born on 20 May 1850 at South Willingham, Lincolnshire, was son of the Rev. Andrew Corbet and Marianne Ridley. He was educated at Cheltenham College. He attended classes at the Slade School of Art under Alexander Davis Cooper and later at the Royal Academy Schools under Frederic Leighton, President of the Academy. Corbet went to Italy in 1880 and met Giovanni Costa, one of Leighton's friends in Rome. For the next three years he stayed and painted with Costa, eventually"
"the hope of a hit there, often working in manners to which their talent was not really suited, a trope exemplified by the suicide in 1846 of Benjamin Haydon, a friend of Keats and Dickens and a better writer than painter, leaving his blood splashed over his unfinished ""King Alfred and the First British Jury"". British history was a very common subject, with the Middle Ages, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots and the English Civil War especially popular sources for subjects. Many painters mentioned elsewhere painted historical subjects, including Millais (""The Boyhood of Raleigh"" and many others), Ford Madox"
"from the Crucifixion"" which remained unfinished at his death in 1904. The Victoria and Albert Museum has one of his watercolours, ""The Little Bull-Fight Bravo, Toro!"" and others, like ""An Oriental Goatherd"" in the Weimar Museum, are in many museums, especially in Scotland. Many of his pictures remain with private collectors. A comprehensive memorial exhibition of Melville's works was held at the Royal Institute Galleries in London in 1906. Arthur Melville Arthur Melville (1858–1904) was a Scottish painter of Orientalist subjects, among others. He was born in Guthrie, Angus in 1858 and brought up in East Lothian. He took up"
"Cecil Raleigh Cecil Raleigh (27 January 1856 – 10 November 1914, London, England) was an English actor and playwright. He was the son of Dr John Fothergill Rowlands, and took the stage name of Raleigh. He played for a time in musical theatre, but deserted acting for playwriting and, either alone or in collaboration, produced melodramas, other plays and musical pieces, staged at first chiefly at the Comedy Theatre, London, and in later years at Drury Lane. ""Cheer, Boys, Cheer"" (1895); ""Hearts are Trumps"" (1899); ""The Best of Friends"" (1902); and ""The Whip"" (1909–10) are typical examples of his plays,"
"(crayon drawings), both bequeathed by the painter; besides drawings, purchased in July 1896, of Earl Canning, Viscount Hill, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Canon Liddon, Archbishop Longley, Sir Charles Lyell, Cardinal Newman, Dr. Pusey, Sir Gilbert Scott, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, and Bishop Wilberforce. George Richmond (painter) George Richmond (28 March 1809 – 19 March 1896) was an English painter and portraitist. In his youth he was a member of The Ancients, a group of followers of William Blake. Later in life he established a career as a portrait painter, which included painting the portraits of the British gentry, nobility and"
"Reginald Bathurst Birch Reginald Bathurst Birch (May 2, 1856 – June 17, 1943) was an English-American artist and illustrator. He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"", which started a craze in juvenile fashion. While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. Birch was born May 2, 1856 in London, England, the son of British army officer William Alexander Birch and Isabella (Hoggins) Birch. During his childhood he lived for a time with his paternal grandfather on"
"Bernard Sleigh Bernard Sleigh (Birmingham 1872–1954) was an English mural painter, stained-glass artist, illustrator and wood engraver, best known for his work ""An Ancient Mappe of Fairyland, Newly Discovered and Set Forth"", which depicts numerous characters from legends and fairytales. A copy of ""The Ancient Mappe"" is in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1923 and 1928. As a young man, Sleigh was greatly inspired by the work of George MacDonald and William Morris. Sleigh was apprenticed to a wood engraver at age 14 and attended the"
"sons included Canon Richmond of Carlisle and Sir William Blake Richmond, K.C.B., R.A. Of his daughters, three married respectively F. W. Farrer, Archdeacon Buchanan, canon of Salisbury, and Justice Kennedy. Richmond's portraits of eminent persons in England were steadily produced for forty years, initially in crayon and watercolour. After 1846 he began to paint in oil, and left a large number of excellent portraits in this medium. Many of his portraits were reproduced as engravings. The Victorian Exhibition held at the New Gallery in the winter of 1891–2 contained eight of his portraits in oil, forty in crayon, and two"
"John Farleigh John Farleigh (16 June 1900 – 30 March 1965), also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations of George Bernard Shaw's work ""The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God"", which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. He is also known for his illustrations of D. H. Lawrence's work, ""The Man Who Died"", and for the posters he designed for London County Council Tramways and"
"Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh (; (or 1554)29 October 1618), also spelled Ralegh, was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. Little is known of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in the Siege of"
"John Haslem (artist) John Haslem (1808–1884), was an English china and enamel painter, and writer. He painted many portrait miniatures of Queen Victoria, the Royal Family and other nobility. Haslem was born in 1808 at Carrington in Cheshire (now part of Greater Manchester). He left home as a young boy to live in Derby with his uncle James Thomason, who went on to manage the Derby China factory. He studied under local ceramic artist, ""George Hancock"", and first devoted himself to flower-painting, but subsequently took to figure-painting, in which he was very successful. Haslem painted the head of Lord Byron"
"County Hall, Maidstone and Castle Leslie in Ireland. Queen Adelaide, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert commissioned some of his paintings. Richard Buckner (artist) Richard Buckner (born Woolwich, London, 25 October 1812; died 12 August 1883), was an English portrait painter. He did not marry. Buckner was the son of an army officer and grandson of Admiral Charles Buckner. Buckner first worked in a studio in his family home, Whyke House, Rumboldswhyke, Chichester. After serving in the army in 1832 and 1833 as a Second Lieutenant in The King's Royal Rifle Corps he studied painting under Giovanni Battista Cassevari in Rome."
"of Merit, officer of Arts and letters. In 1848, during the reign of Queen Victoria, English painting, had been bogged down in the convention. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, by radically innovative aesthetic choices, would bring it back to life. John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt are the original members of this Brotherhood. They claimed a freedom and authenticity that they felt painting had lost since academicism has regarded Raphael as a model. Supported by art critic John Ruskin, who was the voice of modernity at the time, this group of young people—they were only 20 years old—took"
"His passenger survived, but Penleigh suffered terrible injuries and died at the scene within minutes. Fortunately for his wife, the combination of the money from his estate (including the proceeds of the sale of ""The Robins"", the repaired car and about 40 paintings) plus a small inheritance from her father and an annual allowance from Penleigh's father enabled her to support their sons Pat and Robin without needing to work, even during the depths of the Great Depression. Penleigh Boyd Theodore Penleigh Boyd (15 August 1890 – 27 November 1923) was an Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of"
"artists of the Victorian era only Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) was elected an academian to the Royal Academy. Ironically, Leader had been born Williams, but changed his surname to avoid being confused as a son of Edward Williams, to whom he was unrelated. Despite little critical acclaim during their lifetimes, Sidney Richard Percy, Henry Boddington and Arthur Gilbert were three of the most popular landscape artists of the Victorian era, probably more so than the aforementioned Benjamin Leader. Furthermore, the output from their family was immense, with over 800 paintings exhibited with the Society of British Artists alone. This, plus"
"also taught painting, Edward Nash (miniaturist) and Alexander Robertson being two of his pupils. Samuel Shelley Samuel Shelley (1750/56–1808) was an English miniaturist and watercolour painter. Largely self-educated, Samuel Shelley was a leading miniaturist, i.e., painter of portrait miniatures, of his time, ranking with Cosway, Smart, and Crosse. In addition to his portraits, he also painted in water-colours fancy figures and compositions from Shakespeare, Tasso, and other poets. His water-colours and miniatures were engraved by Bartolozzi, William Nutter, Caroline Watson, and others. Born in Whitechapel, London, Shelley was for the most part self-taught as an artist. His first exhibition was"
"paint over a dry opaque paint). He exhibited at the Royal Academy (6 works), the British Institution (82 works), and at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists (338 works). He also exhibited in many of the lesser-known Victorian art venues as well. His works are on display at many museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Glasgow Art Gallery, and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some examples of William Shayer's work. William Shayer William Shayer (1787–1879) was an English landscape painter and figure painter during the Victorian era. William Joseph"
"his visits to Richmond Park and a particular occasion when a young girl was struck by a red deer when she tried to feed it an acorn. The oil painting ""The Carlile Family with Sir Justinian Isham in Richmond Park"" is held at Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. It was painted by Joan Carlile (1600–1679) who lived at Petersham Lodge. A portrait by T Stewart (a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds) in 1758 of ""John Lewis, Brewer of Richmond, Surrey"", whose legal action forced Princess Amelia to reinstate pedestrian access to the park, is in the Richmond upon Thames Borough Art"