Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA, Portrait of Sir Ernest A Waterlow, R.A, 1889.
Oil on canvas. 611 mm x 459 mm x 20 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
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Portrait of Sir Ernest A Waterlow, R.A, 1889
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA (1836 - 1912)
RA Collection: Art
Ernest Waterlow RA was a close friend of Alma-Tadema and this painting was possibly part of an exchange of works between the two artists. When it was exhibited at the Academy in 1890 a reviewer found it ‘a singularly natural and unaffected piece of portraiture’.
Alma-Tadema shows Waterlow with brush and palette in one hand, apparently contemplating a painting that is just out of view. It is quite a private portrait, since there is no engagement with the spectator and the artist seems entirely absorbed in his work.
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