Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, RA ROI (24 May 1850 – 25 October 1919) was a British painter.
Biography
editWaterlow was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape-painting.[1] Sir Sydney Waterlow was his uncle.
He was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the Royal Academy in 1890, and academician in 1903.[1]
He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and watercolour, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, Galway Gossips, is in the Tate collection.[1]
He was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours,[2] receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 381.
- ^ "The Coronation Honours". The Times. No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 5. Retrieved 23 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "No. 27494". The London Gazette. 11 November 1902. p. 7165.
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 960.
Further reading
edit- C. H. Collins Baker, Sir E. A. Waterlow, R.A., P.R.W.S. (London: Art Journal Office, 1906).