Largely self-taught, he was a precocious painter whose major works started when he was only 20. This covers his early work and time in Shoreham, to 1835.
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His mother’s death stopped him painting and turned him into a recluse for a while. He then painted his way through his grief.
As he celebrates his 50th birthday, his young family are growing in size and number. More brilliant paintings, and more success.
Why are there two tortoises in the foreground of Moreau’s ‘Orpheus’? After a journey through Zen Buddhism, fables, and political allegory, the answer may be more obvious.
Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1866, in the next 4 years he painted several startling canvases which took the Salon by storm. Then he was killed.
Here’s a pre-release test version of my hypertext story about the stories of Salome, and a wonderful rhythmic workflow for hypertext authoring.
A series of paintings of beautiful women, culminating in a large work featuring hundreds of female figures. The artist had one thing on his mind.
Financial success in 1846 finally allowed him to concentrate on landscape painting – and to paint many sunsets and harvest scenes.
Almost forgotten now, apart from the help that he gave William Blake, he was the most prominent British landscape painter after Turner’s death.
Berlin, the vibrant city of modern arts, brought love and marriage – and a brief reprise of Salome too.
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