Who was John William Waterhouse?
Q: Who was John William Waterhouse?
A: John William Waterhouse was an English painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and so was called "the modern Pre-Raphaelite".
Q: Where did he come from?
A: He was born in Italy to English parents who were both painters. Later on, he moved to London and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art.
Q: What type of artworks did he create?
A: His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. He focused on creating large canvas works depicting scenes from the daily life and mythology of ancient Greece.
Q: How popular is his work today?
A: Although not as well known as earlier Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Dante Rossetti, John Millais and William Holman Hunt, Waterhouse's work is currently displayed at several major British art galleries, and the Royal Academy of Art organised a major retrospective of his work in 2009.
Q: What influence did other artists have on him?
A: He was influenced by his contemporaries, the Impressionists.
Q: When did he embrace the Pre-Raphaelite style?
A: Despite it having gone out of fashion in British art scene several decades before, later on in his career he came to embrace the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting.
