'Art Notes', New York Times, February 10th, 1895Waterhouse is mentioned as being a Trustee of The Artists' General Benevolent Institution of Great Britain: The Artists' General Benevolent Institution of Great Britain has distributed, since its establishment, in 1814, over $500,000 to needy artists and their families. The institution has now a yearly income of between $20,000 and $25,000. Sir John Millais, R.A.; J.W. Waterhouse, R.A., and Mr. Douglas Gordon are among the Trustees.
'Art Notes', New York Times, June 23rd, 1895News of Waterhouse's election as a full member of London's Royal Academy of Arts: J.W. Waterhouse has been elected a Royal Academician, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. W.C.T. Dobson.
Schools and Masters of Painting, A.G. Radcliffe, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895Waterhouse is described as one of the 'newest and most prominent names in late English art': The classical and historial pictures of William B. Richmond, no less than his valuable portraits, are favorites with the London public; though the newest and most prominent names in late English art are those of J.W. Waterhouse and Solomon J. Solomon. Waterhouse chooses striking points of history, where his active imagination, contrasts, and gradation of color and dramatic arrangements, may produce original and unexpected effects. This is very observable in his "Herod and Mariamne," from the story of Josephus, in which his management of white is specially to be admired.
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