Herbert james draper biography

British painter (1863-1920)

Herbert Book Draper ((1863-11-26)26 November 1863 – (1920-09-22)22 September 1920) was want English Neoclassicist painter whose vocation began in the Victorian year and extended through the crowning two decades of the Ordinal century.

Life

Born in Covent Recreation ground, London, the seventh child very last only son of a end merchant named John James Draper and his wife Emma,^[1][2] Draper was educated at Bruce Stronghold School in Tottenham^[3] and next went on to study break into pieces at the Royal Academy.^[3] Unquestionable undertook several educational trips make out Rome and Paris between 1888 and 1892, having won picture Royal Academy Gold Medal spreadsheet Travelling Studentship in 1889.

Take delivery of the 1890s, he worked bring in an illustrator, eventually settling integrate London. In 1891, he joined Ida (née Williams), with whom he had a daughter, Yvonne.^[3] He died of arteriosclerosis energy the age of 56, instruction his home on Abbey Course.

Career

Draper's most productive period began in 1894.

He focused remarkably on mythological themes from former Greece. His painting The Mourn for Icarus (1898) won righteousness gold medal at the Showing Universelle in Paris in 1900 and was later bought miserly the Tate Gallery by prestige Chantrey Trustees. He was very responsible for the decoration be proper of the ceiling of the Drapers' Hall in the City see London.^[3][4] His draftsmanship was fabulous in sensuous portrayals of both male and female nudes;^[5] assorted of his paintings portray glad, in some cases predatory human sexuality, for example The Entrepreneur of Dawn (1899), The Tap water Nixie (1908), Ulysses and justness Sirens (1909)^[6] and The Kelpie (1913).^[5][7]

In later years as rectitude public tastes changed and mythical scenes became less popular, fiasco concentrated more on portraits.^[3] Betwixt his portrait subjects are honourableness army officer Sir William Edmund Franklyn,^[8]Lucius O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin, his wife and his first son Donough as a adolescent boy,^[9] the physician Philip Pye-Smith (commissioned by Guy's Hospital),^[10] representation actress June Tripp (twice),^[11] play in addition to his wife, who may also have served orang-utan the model for his Autumn.^[5][12] Draper was well-known as unblended portrait painter.

At a generosity auction for the Red Rood in 1918, his offer cause problems paint a child's portrait lying down in a bid of £250, equivalent to £15,383 in 2023.^[13]

Draper took part in the annual expositions of the Royal Academy yield 1890 on.^[3] He was trifling for membership in 1898, 1903, 1905 and 1920, but was passed over for election.^[14][5] Security his last years, his commonness faded, though there has newly been a revival of corporate in his work on goodness art market.^[15][16] The Royal County Museum's 2010 auction of rulership The Sea Maiden and Ernest Normand's Bondage to help circle its finances generated debate be almost the policy of disposing criticize art works for this purpose.^[17][18]

Gallery

• The Sea Maiden, 1894

• Bather, 1896

• The Year Morn, 1896

• The Foam Sprite, 1896

• Calypso's Isle, 1897

• The Lament for Icarus, 1898

• For Saint Dorothea's Day, 1899

• A Water Baby, c.

  1900

• Gates wait Dawn, 1900

• Tristan and Isolde, 1901

• Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities, proverb. 1902

• The Kelpie, 1903

• Sea Melodies, 1904

• The Golden Fleece, 1904

• Ariadne, c.

  1905

• Art and the Jade, 1906

• The Necklace of Aphrodite, 1907

• The Water Nymph, 1908

• Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909

• The Lamia, 1909

• By Summer Seas, 1912

• Clyties of the Mist, 1912

• Halcyone, 1915

• A Young Girl by a Pool

• In the Studio

• The Golden Rays

• Go Fetching Rose!

  Tell her that Wastes her Time and Mine

• A Dryad in a Sunlit Glade

• Portrait Symbolize Miss Barbara De Selincourt

• Ida Draper

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