Royal Society of Portrait Painters
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a charity based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London that promotes the practice and appreciation of portraiture art.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Centenary Catalogue Cover – The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Entrance to Mall Galleries
John Maler Collier was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.
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