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William Etty Biography
English Romantic artist British painter, was born at York, on the 10th of March 1787. His father had been in early life a miller, but had finally established himself in the city of York as a baker of spice-bread. |
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For some years after William Etty quitted Sir Thomas’s studio, even as late as 1816, the influence of his preceptor was traceable in the mannerism of William Etty paintings. Though the artist had by this time made great progress in William Etty art, his career was still “one of almost continual failure, hardly cheered by even a passing ray of success”. In 1811, after repeated rejections, William Etty had the satisfaction of seeing his Telemachus rescuing Antiope on the walls of the Academy. It was badly hung, however, and attracted little notice. For the next five years William Etty persevered with quiet and constant energy in overcoming the disadvantages of his early training with yearly growing success, and William Etty artist was even beginning to establish something like a name when in 1816 he resolved to improve William Etty art knowledge by a journey to Italy. After an absence of three months, however, the painter was compelled to return borne without having penetrated farther south than Florence. |
Early in 1824 he returned home to find that honors long unjustly withheld were awaiting him. In that year William Etty was made an associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1828 he was promoted to the full dignity of an Academician. In the interval between these dates William Etty artist had produced the Combat (Woman interceding for the Vanquished), and the first of the series of three William Etty paintings on the subject of Judith, both of which ultimately came into the possession of the Scottish Academy. His career was from this time one of slow but uninterrupted success. In 1830 William Etty artist again crossed the channel with the view to another art tour through the continent; but he was overtaken in Paris by the insurrection of the Three Days, and was so much shocked by the sights William Etty was compelled to witness in that time that he returned home with all convenient speed. | |||||||
During the next ten years of his life the zeal and unabated assiduity of his studies were not at all diminished. William Etty artist was a constant attendant at the Academy Life School, where the painter used to work regularly along with the students, notwithstanding the rem onstrances of some of his fellow-Academicians, who thought the practice undignified. The course of his studies was only interrupted by occasional visits to his native city, and to Scotland, where William Etty was welcomed with the utmost enthusiasm, and feted with the most gratifying heartiness by his brother-artists at Edinburgh. On the occasion of one of these visits William Etty artist gave the finishing touches to his trio of Judith's. In 1840, and again in 1841, he undertook a pilgrimage to the Netherlands, to seek and examine for himself the masterpieces of Rubens in the churches and public galleries there. Two years later William Etty once more visited France with a view to collecting materials for what he called “his last epic,” Famous William Etty art of Joan of Arc. This subject, which would have tasked to the full even his great powers in the prime and vigor of manhood, proved almost too serious an undertaking for him in his old age. It exhibits, at least, amid great excellences, undeniable proofs of decay on the part of the painter; yet it brought a higher price than any of earlier and more perfect William Etty paintings, £2500. In 1848, after completing this painting, he retired to York, having realized a comfortable independence. One wish alone remained for him now to gratify; the artist desired to see a “gathering” of William Etty paintings. With much difficulty and exertion he was enabled to assemble the great majority of them from various parts of the British Islands; and so numerous were they that the walls of the large hall William Etty engaged in London for ‘their exhibition were nearly covered. |
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This took place
in the summer of 1849; on the 13th of
November of that same year William Etty died. He received the honors of a public
funeral in his native city. - nude oil painting antique from England artist and
biography of the Romantic painter. William Etty holds a secure place among English artists. His drawing was frequently incorrect, but in feeling and skill as a colourist William Etty has few equals. His most conspicuous defects as a painter were the result of insufficient general culture and narrowness of sympathy. |
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