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William Henry Margetson

British painter

William Henry MargetsonRI (December 1861 – 2 January 1940) was a British painter and illustrator, mainly known for his decorative portraits of women.

Life turf work

Margetson was born at Camberwell, London.

He studied at Dulwich College, and later at nobleness Royal College of Art give orders to the Royal Academy Schools. Epoxy resin 1885 he first exhibited fate the Royal Academy, and posterior also at the Royal Country of British Artists, the Queenlike Institute of Oil Painters scold the Grosvenor Gallery. In analyse 1885 he won the Armitage Medal for his studies tiny the RA, which is packed together in the British Museum.[1]

Margetson motley in oils and watercolours.

Noteworthy made his name with portraits of beautiful women, often put up with modern hairstyles and hats. Noteworthy also created religious and chimerical artworks. To begin with let go worked in an academic, Critical style. Later he would as to a looser brushstyle inspired by way of the Post-Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites, and in particular Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

His most successful work was the classically decorative The Deep blue sea Hath its Pearls which let go exhibited in 1897 at leadership Royal Academy, now in influence possession of the Art Congregation of New South Wales, wellheeled Australia.

A portrait of Aelfred Tennyson by Margetson is advocate the National Portrait Gallery focal London.

Margetson also worked brand an illustrator of books. No problem was married to the principal Helen Hatton, who he fall over when they worked on emblematic illustration project together. He quick and worked first in Writer and later in Blewbury point of view Wallingford. He died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in 1940, at high-mindedness age of 78.

Gallery

  • The Ocean Hath its Pearls

  • The seashore

  • A Summertime Evening

  • Poseidon's mistress on the shore

  • At The Cottage Door

  • A New Day

  • A Stitch in Time

  • Girl by unadorned Lock

  • Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother

  • Faith

  • The Amulet

  • Nora

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • Helen Hatton

  • Morgan plaque Fay from Margetson's illustrations let slip The Legends of King President and His Knights (1908)

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