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John Collier
John Collier

John Collier

English, 1850 – 1934
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John Maler Collier was a leading English painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He studied painting at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

Collier was from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a member of parliament. His father, Robert, (who was a member of parliament, Attorney General and, for many years, a full-time judge of the Privy Council) was created the first Lord Monkswell. He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. John Collier's elder brother, the second Lord Monkswell, was Under-Secretary of State for War and Chairman of the London County Council.

In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, President of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. Collier married two of Huxley's daughters and was "on terms of intimate friendship" with his son, the writer Leonard Huxley. Collier's first wife, in 1879, was Marian (Mady) Huxley. She was a painter who studied, like her husband, at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. After the birth of their only child, a daughter, she suffered severe post-natal depression and was taken to Paris for treatment where, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in 1887. Collier's daughter by his first marriage, Joyce, was a portrait miniaturist, and a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters.

In 1889 Collier married Mady's younger sister Ethel Huxley. Until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway. By his second wife he had a daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier, who was the British Ambassador to Norway 1941–51.

Collier died in 1934.

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Portrait of a lady, thought to be Mrs Geoffrey Pynam of Guildford

Portrait of a lady, thought to be Mrs Geoffrey Pynam of Guildford

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Pharaoh’s Handmaidens

Pharaoh’s Handmaidens (1883)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dramatist

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dramatist (1927)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1977)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Woodland Nymph

Woodland Nymph

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
The Death of Cleopatra

The Death of Cleopatra (1890)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Eve

Eve (1911)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Religion
Priestess of Delphi

Priestess of Delphi (1891)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
Tannhäuser en el Venusberg

Tannhäuser en el Venusberg (1901)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
Circe

Circe (1885)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
Myrrh, Aloes and Cassia

Myrrh, Aloes and Cassia

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson (1881)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Figurative
Sentence of death

Sentence of death (1908)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Lady Godiva

Lady Godiva (1898)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
Mythology
Portrait of a lady in eastern dress

Portrait of a lady in eastern dress

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Portrait of The Hon. Mrs Harold Ritchie

Portrait of The Hon. Mrs Harold Ritchie

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Pope Urban VI

Pope Urban VI (1896)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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All hallowe’en

All hallowe’en (1895)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Portrait of a lady in pink carrying a bowl of pink carnations

Portrait of a lady in pink carrying a bowl of pink carnations

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Marian Collier (née Huxley)

Marian Collier (née Huxley) (1882-1883)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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The Laboratory

The Laboratory (1895)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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The Garden Of Armida

The Garden Of Armida

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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The Sonatina

The Sonatina (1883)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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A Great Lady

A Great Lady (1910)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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The Sleeping Beauty

The Sleeping Beauty (1921)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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Pomps And Vanities

Pomps And Vanities (1917)

John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934)
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