Briton Rivière (August 14, 1840 – 1920), English artist, was born in London. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
His father, William Rivière, was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and afterwards an art teacher at Oxford. Cheltenham College is a Co-educational Independent school, located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the He was educated at Cheltenham College and at Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867. For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father, and early in life made for himself a place of importance among the artists of his time.
His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions. This article refers to an art institution in London For other meanings of Royal Academy see Royal Academy (disambiguation. In that year he was represented by "The Eve of the Spanish Armada", and in 1864 by a "Romeo and Juliet". The Spanish Armada ( Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, "Great and Most Fortunate Navy" or Armada Invencible, "Invincible Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the Subjects of this kind did not, however, attract him long, for in 1865 he began, with a picture of a "Sleeping Deer-hound", a series of paintings of animal-subjects which later occupied him almost exclusively.
Among the most memorable of his productions are:
- The Poachers Nurse A (1866)
- The Empty Chair (1869)
- Circe (1871)
- Daniel (1872)
- The Last of the Garrison (1875)
- Lazarus (1877)
- Persepolis (1878)
- In Manus Tuas, Domine (1879)
- The Magician's Doorway (1882)
- Vae Victis (1885)
- Rizpah (1886)
- An Old-Work, Wanderer(1887)
- Of a Fool and his Folly there is no End (1889)
- A Mighty Hunter before the Lord (1891)
- The King's Libation (1893)
- Beyond Man's Footsteps (1894), now in the National Gallery of British Art
- Phoebus Apollo (1895)
- Aggravation (1896)
- St George (1900)
- To the Hills (1901)
He also painted portraits, most notably of his brother in law, Sydney Thompson Dobell, the poet and breeder of deerhounds. A pencil sketch of Sydney Dobell by him is in the National Portrait Gallery. Sydney Dobell's deerhounds appeared in several of his works, notably "The Empty Chair" of 1869. Early in his career, he made some mark as an illustrator, beginning with Punch. Punch was a British weekly Magazine of Humour and Satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002 He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878, and R. A. in 1881, and received the degree of DCL at Oxford in 1891. Some universities such as the University of Oxford, award Doctor of Civil Law (DCL degrees instead of Doctor of Laws (LL He was only narrowly defeated in the election for President of the Royal Academy in 1896.
See Sir Walter Armstrong, Briton Rivière, R. A; His Life and Work, Art Annual (1891).
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