Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,OM.RA,RWS
1836-1912
Related Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,OM.RA,RWS :. | Self-Portrait | A Pyrrhic Dance Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Joseph Overseer of the Pharoahs Granaries, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, oil on canvas | Her Eyes are with Her Thoughts and They are Far away | Sculptors in Ancient Rome | Related Artists: DUCK, JacobDutch painter (b. ca. 1600, Utrecht, d. after 1660, Utrecht) John wharlton bunney1828-1882
was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century. His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age. The young Bunney became a follower of John Ruskin; he studied with Ruskin at the Working Men's College soon after its founding in 1854, and later worked as a clerk for Smith, Elder & Co., Ruskin's publisher. Bunney was able to give up his clerical job and make his living by his art and art teaching by 1859; Ruskin commissioned him to execute a series of drawings in Italy and Switzerland.Bunney married Elizabeth Fallon in 1863. The couple settled in Florence; they would have four children. Bunney worked for Ruskin's St. George's Company (later the Guild of St George) in northern Italy for the remainder of his life. In his career there, Bunney produced a noteworthy pictorial record of Italy in his era. Ruskin said that Bunney's work was "so faithful and careful as almost to enable the spectator to imagine himself on the spot." Bunney was a friend of many of the Pre-Raphaelites, especially William Holman Hunt. From 1870 on, Bunney lived and painted in Venice. In 1876 Ruskin commissioned Bunney to paint a picture that included the entire western facade of St. Mark's Basilica Calcar, Johan Stephen vonor Calcker, German- practiced mainly in Italy, 1499-1546
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