John William Waterhouse (born between January and April 1849, died February 10, 1917) was an English painter known mainly for his Pre-Raphaelite painting style. The artist drew inspiration from ...

John William Waterhouse was a painter that pulled his work from a variety of written work, ... Ophelia-1894: This painting depicts the tragic character of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Othello. ... The ...

Beautiful paintings by John William Waterhouse, part of a collection opening next week at London's Royal Academy of Arts. 19 June 2009 • 1:45pm .

The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, has come top of the list of what the public want to see in the world’s largest art show. The painting which interprets the well known poem by Alfred ...

Two of the ‘hero works’ being shown are John Everett Millais’ Ophelia and John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott. The Brotherhood came together in 1848 at the Royal Academy to challenge the ...

In 1849, a radical group of artists calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, led by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, took the British art world by storm.

Some longtime inspirations were certainly influences for the project: Most significant were probably the paintings of John William Waterhouse; the palette of the great British paintings by J.M.W ...