Walter William Ouless (21 September 1848 – 25 December 1933) was a British

portrait painter Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...

from

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. He became an

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(ARA) in 1877 and a full member (RA) in 1881.

Life and career

He was born in 1848 at 53 Paradise Row, New Street,

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, at the home where his father, marine artist Philip John Ouless, had established his studio in the previous year. His mother was Caroline Savage. He was educated at Victoria College and went to London in 1864, where he entered the Royal Academy schools in 1865. His earliest work was in the field of genre painting, but his compatriot Millais advised him to concentrate on portrait painting, in which field he established a successful career. In later life he turned to landscape painting. Ouless was "one of the best-known portraitists of the latter years of the nineteenth century", regarded as an "impressive exponent of character". He was a volunteer in the Artists Rifles. His daughter Catherine Ouless (1879–1961) also achieved success as an artist.

Exhibitions

Ouless exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1869, in the British Section of the

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, and of the

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.B. Kendell, "British Painters and Sculptors at the Paris Exhibition", '' The Artist'' (American Edition), Vol. 28, No. 247 (August 1900), p. 152.

Gallery

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References

*''Dictionary of Painters of the Channel Islands'', Philip Stevens, Jersey 2002,

External links

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Biography
(London Atelier of representational Art)

(ArtCyclopedia)
W. W. Ouless on Artnet

Portraits of Ouless
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Portraits by Ouless
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Portrait of Stephen Augustus Ralli
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Portrait of William Henry Mason
(1879, Christie's) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ouless, Walter William 19th-century British painters British male painters 20th-century British painters British portrait painters Royal Academicians 1848 births 1933 deaths People from Saint Helier Jersey artists Artists' Rifles soldiers People educated at Victoria College, Jersey 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists