John Collier

(1850 - 1934)

 

John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

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In the Forest of Arden (Touchstone and Audrey from Shakespeare 's As You Like It )

1892

Oil on canvas,

152 x 200 cm.

Private collection