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Dante and Beatrice by John William Waterhouse, 1915

British / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of “Dante and Beatrice” of 1915 by John William Waterhouse.   This work reflects and captures a moment from the divine comedy when the author encounters his beloved Beatrice.  This is an oil sketch from the last year in which the artist could work.  In this year he became too ill with cancer to continue.

Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites.  Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old.  He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting.  For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made production impossible in 1915.  He died two years later.  This masterpiece is presently in the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

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