John Maler Collier was an English painter and writer. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation, and also created history paintings that were usually imaginary portraits of
John Collier by his first wife Marian, née Huxley, 1882
The Laboratory (1895) from Robert Browning's classic revenge poem. Now in the collection of The Arts of Imagination Foundation.
Collier's first wife, Marian Huxley, painted by her husband in 1883
Lady Godiva (1898) Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Clytemnestra, also known as Clytemnestra after the Murder, is an 1882 oil painting by the English artist John Collier. It has been in the Guildhall Art Gallery, in the City of London, since 1893. A se
John Collier (painter)
…it as part of its celebrated collection of artists' self-portraits. Other pictures may be seen in houses and institutions open to the public: his Clytemnestra, a large and striking painting of the mythical figure, is in the Guildhall Gallery of the City of London. Another version, in which Clytemnestra has…
Collier Clytemnestra after the murder
Reconstruction of a column from the Treasury of Atreus, at the British Museum
Version in Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, c.1914