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Walter Howell Deverell
1827-1854
English Victorian Painter and Illustrator, Chiefly Associated with
the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)
Artistically and
stylistically influenced the following painters and art periods;
Early
Renaissance,
Byzantine Style,
Gothic Era
Painting,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William
Holman Hunt and
John Everett
Millais
Education - Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and later at the Royal Academy
Cause of Death - Bright's disease (a severe form of kidney infection), he was just 27.
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About The Pre-Raphaelites
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1848. The most important artist was a handsome and charming painter named Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The term Pre-Raphaelites refers to High Renaissance artist Raphael. Some members of the PRB referred to Raphael's work utter rubbish and criticized his decadent themes and depraved lifestyle. Raphael, although one of the greatest painters in the history of art, died of syphilis and was known as a drunkard and carouser. This did not sit well with the PRB painters who believed that only a morally pure artist could produce morally pure art. John Ruskin, famous Victorian Art Critic and major influence on the PRB cautioned "We live in an age of base conceit and baser servility—an age whose intellect is chiefly formed by pillage, and occupied in desecration; one day mimicking, the next destroying, the works of all the noble persons who made its intellectual or art life possible to it:—an age without honest confidence enough in itself to carve a cherry-stone with an original fancy, but with insolence enough to abolish the solar system, if it were allowed to meddle with it. In the midst of all this, you have to become lowly and strong" Dante Rossetti and the other (PRB) artists embraced the artistic manner of Mediaeval and Early Renaissance painters; Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Paolo Veneziano, Andrea del Verrocchio and Giotto Bondone. The (PRB) felt that these painters infused their works with spiritual symbolism, godliness and sacred themes.
Walter Howell Deverell
Hughes
Favorite Themes
Shakespearian
subjects
social realism
Italian themes
historical themes
literary themes
Writers who influenced Walter Howell Deverell
Goethe
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
John Keats
Shakespeare
Tennyson
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