Hon. John Collier (British 1850-1934)
Eve
signed and dated 'John Collier/1911' (lower right), indistinctly inscribed on a label attached to the reverse
oil on canvas
160 x 190 cm. (63 x 74 3/4 in.)
signed and dated 'John Collier/1911' (lower right), indistinctly inscribed on a label attached to the reverse
oil on canvas
160 x 190 cm. (63 x 74 3/4 in.)
Estimate:
£20,000 - 30,000
€24,000 - 36,000
US$ 30,000 - 46,000
€24,000 - 36,000
US$ 30,000 - 46,000
Footnotes
- Exhibited:
Royal Academy, 1911, no. 485.
John Collier was perhaps best known as a painter of society portraits and dramatic depictions of figures from ancient history, such as 'Clytemnestra' (RA 1882) and 'A glass of wine with Caesar Borgia' (RA 1893); he exhibited his work at the Royal Academy for sixty years, as well as contributing to exhibitions at the Grosvenor Galleries until it's untimely demise in 1890. Alongside artists such as J.W. Waterhouse, S.J.Solomon and H.J.Draper, Collier belongs to a generation of Classical painters working at the end of the Victoran era, drawing influence from the great Olympian masters such as Poynter, Leighton and Alma-Tadema. Indeed, Collier studied under Poynter at the Slade, and was a close disciple of Alma-Tadema. Collier shared his predecessor's fasination with the aesthetic portrayal of the human form, and Collier's father (himself an amateur landscape painter) even commissioned from Tadema the controversial 1877 work 'The Sculptor's model', as an example of how to paint nude form.
Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings
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