{"id":126,"date":"2019-10-12T00:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/margauxworrall\/?p=126"},"modified":"2019-10-12T00:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T00:21:14","slug":"pre-raphaelite-john-william-waterhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/margauxworrall\/2019\/10\/12\/pre-raphaelite-john-william-waterhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Raphaelite – John William Waterhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John William Waterhouse was born in 1849 in Rome where his father lived as an artist. He soon left back to England in 1854 where his interest in art, specifically drawing took off. By 1870, Warehouse was studying sculpture at the Royal Academy but redirected his studies to painting in 1874. His paintings became an instant hit with the academy and would be exhibited annually at the RAs summer exhibition till 1916. 
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Waterhouses’ early years in painting were undoubtedly marked by the academy as he followed a seemingly classical style of painting. He had accuracy in his characters and settings, his use of bright colors was sparse and his themes\/subjects were conventional. Such can be seen in his artwork Sleep and His Half Brother Death<\/em> (1874)(fig.1). 
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Figure 1. Sleep and his Half-brother Death<\/em>, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Despite his academic training and his classical start, Waterhouse began to show interest in more exotic paintings and vibrant colors by 1880. His themes became heavily based on literature and mythology and his figures were more often than not were \u201c (…) dramatic, beautiful women\u2014damsels in distress, enchantresses, or femmes fatales \u201d (John William Waterhouse, 2019. , with his favorite being Ophelia (see fig.2, 3, 4). This change marked the beginning of his pre-raphaelite career.
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