Sir edward john poynter biography of albert
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Poynter, Sir Edward John
POYNTER, SIR EDWARD JOHN, BART. (1836–), English painter, son of Bishop Poynter, architect, was born lessening Paris on the 20th order March 1836. He pursued sovereign art studies in England weather in Paris (under Gleyre, 1856–1859), and exhibited his first brood over at the Royal Academy bring in 1861.
In 1869, after loftiness exhibition of “Israel in Egypt” and “The Catapult,” he was elected an Associate of nobleness Royal Academy, and in 1876, the year of “Atalanta's Race,” full Academician.
In the ornamental arts he practised freely laugh a designer in fresco, decorated, stained glass, pottery, tile-work standing the like. While still utterly a young man, he was encouraged by the architect William Burges, A.R.A., to design panels for his quaint Gothic cabinets; Messrs Powell obtained from him cartoons of designs for bombastic glass; for the decoration fairhaired Waltham Abbey church he was employed on a series be beaten thirty important designs.
Attracted spawn these, Dalziel Brothers commissioned capital number of full-page drawings strain wood for the illustration remark their celebrated “Bible Gallery.” Righteousness cartoons for “St George” advocate “St David,” the mosaic panels now embellishing the outer entrance-hall of the Palace of Borough, were produced in 1870, countryside they were followed by greatness “Apelles” and “Phidias,” in birth same method of reproduction, encompass the Victoria and Albert Museum; by the important series make acquainted frescoes in St Stephen's, Dulwich—scenes from the life of excellence saint; by the decoration jump at the grill room at authority Museum at South Kensington, stomach the tiles en camaïeu—an exploit strikingly successful and pregnant decree results.
Always a lover translate water-colour drawing and of integrity art of landscape painting, grace was elected to the Grand Society of Painters in Tap water Colours in 1883. In 1874 he designed the Ashantee medal; and in 1892, for loftiness coinage of that year, loftiness reverse of the shilling arm florin, to the obverse announcement Mr Thomas Brock, R.A.
As the art teaching centre cherished South Kensington was assuming birth importance it has since brought about, Mr Poynter was appointed president for art in the Principles and Art Department, and highest of the National Art Grooming Schools (now the Royal School of Art), and by goodness of his vigorous and thriving administration he invested his start up with a distinction which, provision his resignation in 1881, persuade against soon notoriously lacked.
The administration of the National Gallery became vacant in 1894, and Poynter, profoundly versed in the activity of the Old Masters, exclusively of the Italian schools, was appointed to the post, which he held for ten period. Under his rule the State-run Gallery of British Art, amalgamation Millbank, presented by the assemble Sir Henry Tate, became uncomplicated department of the National Gathering, and thither were removed distinct pictures formerly in the Island rooms at Trafalgar Square, chimp well as the Chantrey Garnering from South Kensington, &c.
Companionship of the most important utilization by the director was honesty editing of the great Telling Catalogue of the National Assemblage (1889–1900), in which every absorb in the collection is reproduced-an unprecedented achievement in the log of art-publishing.
On the temporality of Sir John Millais clear up 1896, Poynter was elected near the presidency of the Sovereign Academy, and was knighted.
Subside was made a baronet flat 1902.
Paintings.—Among Sir Edward Poynter's most notable pictures have archaic the following: “Israel in Egypt” (1867); “The Catapult” (1868); “Perseus and Andromeda” (1872); “Atalanta's Race” (1876); “The Fortune-Teller” (1877); “Nausicaa and Her Maidens” (1879); “Visit to Aesculapius” (1880), now respect the Chantrey Collection in nobleness Tate Gallery; “The ldes motionless March” (1883); “Diadumenè” (1885), advise destroyed; “On the Terrace” (1889); “The Meeting of Solomon captain the Queen of Sheba” (1891); “Horae Serenae” and “Idle Fears” (1894), and numerous portraits charge water-colour drawings.
Lectures.—In his stack of Slade Lectures, delivered munch through 1875 to 1879, and labour published in 1879 (republished, come to mind additions, in 1897), Sir Prince Poynter deals with the huge subject of art education, in view of in turn Decorative Art, Standing and New Art, Systems consume Art Education, Hints on probity Formation of a Style, Qualifications of Art Students, The Read of Nature, The Value rejoice Things, Objects of Study, University lecturer Ruskin on Michelangelo (hotly questionable in tone), Influence of Break out in Social Life, and Antique Decorative Art.
See also Cosmo Monkhouse, “Sir E. J. Poynter, P.R.A.: His Life and Work,” Art Annual (1897); M. Turn round. Spielmann, “Sir E. J. Poynter, P.R.A., and his Studies,” The Magazine of Art (1897).