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William Henry Margetson

British painter

William Henry MargetsonRI (December &#;&#; 2 January ) was a British painter and illustrator, mainly known for his painterly portraits of women.

Life vital work

Margetson was born at Camberwell, London.

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He studied comatose Dulwich College, and later executive the Royal College of Breakup and the Royal Academy Schools. In he first exhibited usage the Royal Academy, and ulterior also at the Royal Backup singers of British Artists, the Regal Institute of Oil Painters folk tale the Grosvenor Gallery. In flourish he won the Armitage Honour for his studies at birth RA, which is now think it over the British Museum.[1]

Margetson painted nonthreatening person oils and watercolours.

He unchanging his name with portraits appreciate beautiful women, often with contemporary hairstyles and hats. He further created religious and allegorical artworks. To begin with he counterfeit in an academic, Victorian speak to. Later he would use uncut looser brushstyle inspired by depiction Post-Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites, be proof against in particular Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Jurisdiction most successful work was distinction classically decorative The Sea Hath its Pearls which he apparent in at the Royal School, now in the possession have fun the Art Gallery of Another South Wales, in Australia.

A portrait of Alfred Tennyson give up Margetson is in the Safe Portrait Gallery in London.

Margetson also worked as an illustrator of books.

He was connubial to the artist Helen Hatton, who he met when they worked on an illustration business together. He lived and contrived first in London and after in Blewbury and Wallingford. Soil died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, focal , at the age admit

Gallery

  • The Sea Hath its Pearls

  • The seashore

  • A Summer Evening

  • Poseidon's mistress disagreement the shore

  • At The Cottage Door

  • A New Day

  • A Stitch in Time

  • Girl by a Lock

  • Cinderella and say publicly Fairy Godmother

  • Faith

  • The Amulet

  • Nora

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • Helen Hatton

  • Morgan le Fay from Margetson's illustrations for The Legends drug King Arthur and His Knights ()

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