John Collier (1850 - 1934) was a painter of pre-Raphaelism and one of the leading portraitists of his time. Collier's family was highly respected politically and artistically. Collier's education was very diverse. He first studied at the Eton School, but also went to Munich, Heidelberg, Paris and the Slade School. His teachers included Edward Poynter and Jean-Paul Laurens. Although he was officially not their student, Collier was also taught by Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John Everett Millais.
influenced. From Millais, Collier adopted his somewhat unusual portrait practice. To do this, he placed canvas and model next to each other, took a few steps back, observed both from a distance, and then returned to the canvas and continued painting.
Collier made himself a reputation as a portrait painter, although he also painted other motifs such as landscape scenes, historical and dramatic motifs. Many sought-after personalities of his time willingly posed for him, enabling him to cover an impressive range of very different personalities. Among them were Charles Darwin, the admiral and polar explorer Edward Augustus Inglefield. But also spiritual, noble, artistic and political personalities had their portraits painted by him. Collier's famous Sitter Book, which was in the possession of his son, was lavishly copied in 1962 and can be viewed by the public today. It is an exact handwritten list of all portraits Collier ever made, including date, name of the model and many other interesting details. Collier has exhibited 83 times at the Royal Academy in London and over 100 times at various other renowned galleries. He was also one of the 24 founding members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and became its Vice President.
Collier married Marian Huxley, who was a painter like him and had studied at the Slade School. Marian Huxley's father was president of the Royal Society between 1883 and 1885. Collier had close ties to the Huxley family not only because of his marriage to Marian. He was also close friends with his brother-in-law, the writer Leonard Huxley. After Marian died of pneumonia, Collier married his wife's younger sister. However, since this union was contrary to the marriage law of England at that time, the couple had to move to Norway for the marriage.
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