Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887Waterhouse's biography and portrait were included in the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, edited by John Denison Champlin, and published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1887. Waterhouse would have been 40 years of age in 1887.  Born in Rome, Italy, of English parents, in 1849. Went to England in 1854; history painter, pupil of Royal Academy schools. First exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874, Sleep and his Brother Death. Revisited Italy in 1883. Elected an A.R.A. in 1885. Works: Miranda (1875); After the Dance (1876); Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius (1877); La Favorita (1879); Rival Roses, Summer's Day (1881); Diogenes (1882); Favourites of the Emperor Honorius, Bubbles (1883); Consulting the Oracle (1884); St. Eulalia's Crucifixion, By-way in Old Rome (1885); Magic Circle, Flower Market (1886).
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