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Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, (24 May 185025 October 1919) was a British painter.


Biography

Waterlow was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape-painting. Sir Sydney Waterlow was his uncle. He was elected associate of the
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in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the
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in 1890, and academician in 1903. He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and
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, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, ''Galway Gossips,'' is in the
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collection. He was
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in the
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, receiving the accolade from King
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at
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on 24 October that year. Waterlow died in
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in 1919.


Family

Waterlow's sister Constance was married to the neurologist
David Ferrier Sir David Ferrier FRS (13 January 1843 – 19 March 1928) was a pioneering Scottish neurologist and psychologist. Ferrier conducted experiments on the brains of animals such as monkeys and in 1881 became the first scientist to be prosecuted ...
; Waterlow illustrated several of Ferrier's scientific papers.


References


Further reading

*
C. H. Collins Baker Charles Henry Collins Baker (24 January 1880 – 3 July 1959) was an English art historian and painter. Life and work Charles Henry Collins Baker was born in Ilminster, Somerset, the son of John Collins Baker and Fanny Henrietta Remmet. He was ...
, ''Sir E. A. Waterlow, R.A., P.R.W.S.'' (London: Art Journal Office, 1906).


External links

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