Museum Magazine J.W. Waterhouse

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Content:

5 Preface
Patty Wageman

9 For many years, Waterhouse expert Peter Trippi travelled all over the world, searching for works by this artist. He has met many enthusiastic people and he kindles enthusiasm about Waterhouse in other people as well. Will his journey now come to an end?

17 Elizabeth Prettejohn
Wonders why Waterhouse is not taken seriously by the academic world. Is he too popular? She found that Waterhouse’s special quality was the way in which he depicted antiquity.

24 Nathalie Krall
Unravels moments of complexity in de Ladies of Shalott.  Tennyson’s poem inspired Waterhouse to no less than three remarkable pictorial adaptations.

29 Stephen en Linda Waterhouse
Explain why their namesake’s paintings harmonize so well with their collection.

33 John Physick
Lived to see his great-uncle sink into oblivion and rise to fame again.

37 Curious?

62 Exhibition Programme

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