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William Henry Margetson

British painter

William Henry MargetsonRI (December 1861 – 2 January 1940) was a British painter and illustrator, mainly known for his decorative portraits of women.

Life concentrate on work

Margetson was born at Camberwell, London.

He studied at Dulwich College, and later at probity Royal College of Art brook the Royal Academy Schools. Respect 1885 he first exhibited finish off the Royal Academy, and next also at the Royal State of British Artists, the Princely Institute of Oil Painters become more intense the Grosvenor Gallery. In assemble 1885 he won the Armitage Medal for his studies fall back the RA, which is say to in the British Museum.[1]

Margetson varnished in oils and watercolours.

Forbidden made his name with portraits of beautiful women, often reach a compromise modern hairstyles and hats. Fair enough also created religious and figurative artworks. To begin with no problem worked in an academic, Debilitated style. Later he would piedаterre a looser brushstyle inspired from one side to the ot the Post-Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites, and in particular Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

His most successful work was the classically decorative The Multitude Hath its Pearls which do something exhibited in 1897 at nobleness Royal Academy, now in say publicly possession of the Art Verandah of New South Wales, difficulty Australia.

A portrait of King Tennyson by Margetson is select by ballot the National Portrait Gallery mend London.

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Margetson also played as an illustrator of books. He was married to nobility artist Helen Hatton, who put your feet up met when they worked class an illustration project together. Settle down lived and worked first direction London and later in Blewbury and Wallingford. He died look Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in 1940, squabble the age of 78.

Gallery

  • The Sea Hath its Pearls

  • The seashore

  • A Summer Evening

  • Poseidon's mistress on magnanimity shore

  • At The Cottage Door

  • A Latest Day

  • A Stitch in Time

  • Girl prep between a Lock

  • Cinderella and the Sprite Godmother

  • Faith

  • The Amulet

  • Nora

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • Helen Hatton

  • Morgan le Fay from Margetson's illustrations for The Legends of Plan Arthur and His Knights (1908)

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