John William Waterhouse, R.A., was in his 69th year. The first of his paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy was "Sleep and his half-brother Death" in 1874, and since then there have been few Academies without one or two of his works. He was elected an Associate in 1885, the year of one of his best-known paintings, the "St. Eulalia." "The Magic Circle," painted in 1886, which was purchased for 650l for the Chantrey Bequest Collection, and "The Lady of Shalott," which was exhibited at the Academy in 1888, were others of his most popular works. He became an R.A. in 1895.