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Relationship to john william waterhouse:

Artist, and neighbour at Primrose Hill Studios: in 1893 Waterlow is listed as occupying No. 6. Waterhouse is also listed as working out of the same studio at the same time. Assuming the entry for Waterlow is correct, either Waterhouse was lending the studio to Waterlow, whilst he worked elsewhere, or they both worked out of the same studio in 1893. Waterlow's address before and after 1893 was 1, Maresfield Gardens.

Brief Biography:

WATERLOW, Sir Ernest Albert, R.A., P.R.W.S. (1850-1919)

Landscape painter in oil and water-colour, often featuring cattle. Born in London on 24th May 1850, son of a lithographer. Studied in Lausanne and Heidelberg, and at the R.A. Schools from 1872. Won the Turner Gold Medal in 1873. Exhibited at the R.A. and R.W.S. 1872-1919. Influenced by G.H. Mason, Fred Walker and the Barbizon painters. Elected A.R.W.S. 1880, A.R.A. 1890, R.W.S. 1894, P.R.W.S. 1897-1914, and R.A. 1903. Knighted 1902. Worked in Suffolk, Dorset, Cornwall, Ireland, France, Germany and Switzerland. Represented in several public collections. Lived in London where he died on 25th October 1919.

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

Sir Ernest Waterlow painted idyllic landscape scenes which captured the essence of the English countryside without idealising it to the degree that Birket Foster did. His career as a painter was never less than a successful one, unlike those of artists like Sir Edward Poynter and Lord Leighton, whose work initially received critical acclaim, but was later rejected and often ridiculed. Waterlow was educated in Heidelburg and Lausanne and entered the R.A. Schools in 1872, where he won the Turner Gold Medal in the following year. He began to exhibit at the R.A. the same year and a little later at the SS and other leading galleries in London and the provinces. His work was influenced by George H. Mason and Fred Walker and the French School of naturalistic painting, seen at its best in the works of the Barbizon School, which took its name from a village some thirty miles from Paris and which became a centre for plein air painting. He was knighted in 1902.

Source: A Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Artists by Adrian Vincent, David & Charles, 1991.

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