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Relationship to john william waterhouse:

Artist, and neighbour at Primrose Hill Studios: Rowland Holyoake occupied No. 5 from 1897-1902, Waterhouse occupied No. 6.

Brief Biography:

HOLYOAKE, Rowland (fl. 1880-1907)

Painter in oil and water-colour of genre, portraits and landscapes. Exhibited at the principal London galleries from 1880, mainly at Suffolk Street, the R.A. and R.I. Son of the painter William Holyoake, R.B.A. (1834-94).

Source: Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950, Grant M. Waters, Eastbourne, 1975.

R.A.: Royal Academy

R.I.: Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours

R.B.A.: Royal Society of British Artists

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