Artist: John William Waterhouse
Title : Boras
Date: 1902
Location: Private Collections
Original Media: Oil on Canvas
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John William Waterhouse 1849 - 1917
English Pre-Raphaelite painter & draftsman
Born in Rome to the painters William and Isabela Waterhouse, but when he was five the family moved to South Kensington, near the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum. He studied painting under his father before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton, and were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the Dudley Gallery.