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St. Eulalia, John William Waterhouse, 1885

British / Greco-Roman / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) / Waterhouse - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of “St. Eulalia” of 1885 by John William Waterhouse.   This work was inspired by the story of the martyrdom of St. Eulalia during the last Christian persecution of 304.  She was a noble woman of the modern Barcelona, Spain, of which she remains a patron saint.  The original work is in the Tate Gallery in London.
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 productin impossible in 1915.  He died two years later.
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