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Edward John Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Edward John Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, 1880. During a visit to Rome in 1853 he made the acquaintance of Lord Leighton, who encouraged him to study art futher. He strongly admired contemporary French painting, and in 1857 became a pupil in the atelier of Charles Gleyre, where he met Whistler. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861, and continued to exhibit annually until his death in 1919. He was elected RA in 1877, and made president in 1896. He was appointed Slade Professor of Art, at University College London, in 1871. In 1875 he was appointed principal of the National Art Training School. He created works for such institutions as the Houses of Parliament and the South Kensington Museum. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).
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AR941383
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3716px × 4700px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
1st Baron Leighton of Stretton
ART
artist
ARTS
B&W
B/W
Baron Frederic
Baron Frederic Leighton
Baron Leighton
Black & White
Black and white
Edward John
Edward John Poynter
Edward Poynter
FRéDéRIC
Frederic Leighton
JOB
Leighton
Lock &
Lock & Whitfield
Lord Frederic Leighton
Lord Leight
Male
Man
Men
Monochrome
National Art Training School
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OCCUPATION
painter
People
Photograph
Portrait
Poynter
President
Print Collector3
PROFESSION
PROFESSOR
Royal Academy of Arts
Sir E Poynter
Sir Edward John
The Print Collector
Victorian
Whitfield