The Photographic News, March 7, 1884
A report of a recent meeting of the Amateur Photographic Association notes that one of the prizes awarded was a picture by J.W. Waterhouse, presumably the painter. It is not known whether Waterhouse had an interest in amateur photography himself. However, another J. Waterhouse who was a keen photographer was Major-General James Waterhouse, Assistant Surveyor-General of India in charge of the Photographic and Lithographic Branch, and author of The Preparation of Drawings for Photographic Purposes. He would later become President of the Royal Photographic Society:
The Secretary then laid before the meeting the following prizes which had been awarded at the annual meeting...
It is noted that a Mrs. Abbott wins 'an oil painting in frame, by J.W. Waterhouse'.
Academy Notes, May 1884
Waterhouse's painting 'Consulting the Oracle' was included, and illustrated, in that year's Academy Notes.
On the line is an important and characteristic Spanish picture--No. 552, "The Scramble at the Wedding," by Mr. Burgess, A.R.A. No. 553, "The Rev. Canon Bradley," H. Herkomer, A.R.A.; and in the centre, No. 559, "Consulting the Oracle," the best work both in colour and composition we have yet seen from Mr. Waterhouse.
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