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Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, (24 May 185025 October 1919) was a British painter.
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 theRoyal Watercolour Society
The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wat ...
in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purp ...
in 1890, and academician in 1903.
He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and watercolour
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...
, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, ''Galway Gossips,'' is in the Tate
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collection.
He was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours, receiving the accolade from King Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.
Waterlow died in Hampstead in 1919.
Further reading
* C. H. Collins Baker, ''Sir E. A. Waterlow, R.A., P.R.W.S.'' (London: Art Journal Office, 1906).References
External links
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