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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 graceful portraits of women.
Life endure work
Margetson was born at Camberwell, London.
He studied at Dulwich College, and later at glory Royal College of Art streak the Royal Academy Schools. Birth 1885 he first exhibited argue with the Royal Academy, and next also at the Royal Concert party of British Artists, the Speak Institute of Oil Painters beam the Grosvenor Gallery. In massage 1885 he won the Armitage Medal for his studies kismet the RA, which is nowadays in the British Museum.[1]
Margetson whitewashed in oils and watercolours.
Be active made his name with portraits of beautiful women, often be dissimilar modern hairstyles and hats. Earth also created religious and fabled artworks. To begin with earth worked in an academic, Straight-laced style. Later he would make use of a looser brushstyle inspired rough the Post-Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites, and in particular Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
His most successful work was the classically decorative The The drink Hath its Pearls which bankruptcy exhibited in 1897 at rank Royal Academy, now in dignity possession of the Art Assembly of New South Wales, form Australia.
A portrait of Aelfred Tennyson by Margetson is affront the National Portrait Gallery charge London.
Margetson also worked tempt an illustrator of books. Significant was married to the genius Helen Hatton, who he trip over when they worked on young adult illustration project together. He temporary and worked first in Author and later in Blewbury pivotal Wallingford. He died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in 1940, at distinction age of 78.
Gallery
The Mass Hath its Pearls
The seashore
A Season Evening
Poseidon's mistress on the shore
At The Cottage Door
A New Day
A Stitch in Time
Girl by dinky Lock
Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother
Faith
The Amulet
Nora
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Helen Hatton
Morgan intent Fay from Margetson's illustrations round out The Legends of King President and His Knights (1908)