biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1821–93)
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| biography:
| British historical painter, born in Calais, NW France. He studied art at Bruges, Ghent, and Antwerp. In Paris he produced his ‘Manfred on the Jungfrau’ (1841), a work intensely dramatic in feeling, but sombre in colouring. A visit to Italy (1845) led him to seek a greater richness of colouring, as in ‘Chaucer Reciting his Poetry’ (1851). He was a close associate of William Morris, and in 1861 was a founder member of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, for which he produced designs for furniture and stained glass. He completed 12 frescoes for Manchester Town Hall just before his death. |
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