1845-1915 English painter, illustrator, designer, writer and teacher. He showed artistic inclinations as a boy and was encouraged to draw by his father, the portrait painter and miniaturist Thomas Crane (1808-59). A series of illustrations to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott (Cambridge, MA, Harvard U., Houghton Lib.) was shown first to Ruskin, who praised the use of colour, and then to the engraver William James Linton, to whom Crane was apprenticed in 1859. From 1859 to 1862 Crane learnt a technique of exact and economical draughtsmanship on woodblocks. His early illustrative works included vignette wood-engravings for John R. Capel Wise's The New Forest: Its History and its Scenery (1862).   Related Paintings of Walter Crane,RWS :. | Last Supper | Female toilets | Shepherdess with her flock (san17) | Stigmatisation des Hl. Franziskus | View of the Temple by the Water |
Related Artists:
Hipolito Boaventura Caron
painted Arredores de Paris in 1887
Robert Peckham
painted The Raymond Children in 1838
John Augustus Atkinson
English Painter, 1775-ca.1833