Ernest Albert Waterlow, by Ernest Albert Waterlow

Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, (24 May 185025 October 1919) was a British painter.

Biography

Waterlow was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape-painting.

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was his uncle. He was elected associate of the

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in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the

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in 1890, and academician in 1903. He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and

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, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, ''Galway Gossips,'' is in the

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collection. He was

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in the

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, receiving the accolade from King

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on 24 October that year. Waterlow died in

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in 1919.

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