John Collier (painter)

John Collier
John Collier by his first wife Marian, née Huxley, 1882
Born
John Maler Collier

27 January 1850
Died11 April 1934 (aged 84)
North House, Eton Avenue, London, England
EducationEton; Slade School of Fine Art
Known forPainter
MovementPre-Raphaelite; Orientalist
Spouses
  • Marian Huxley
  • Ethel Huxley
The Laboratory (1895) from Robert Browning's classic revenge poem. Now in the collection of The Arts of Imagination Foundation.

John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP (/ˈkɒliər/; 27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a British painter and writer.[1] He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

  1. ^ Browne, Janet 2002. Charles Darwin: the power of place. Cape, London p. 487–488.

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