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See also:RICHMOND, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM See also:BLAKE (1842– ) , See also:English painter and decorator, was See also:born in See also:London on the 29th of See also:November 1842. His See also:father, See also:George Richmond, R.A. (18o9–1896), himself the son of a successful See also:miniature painter, was a distinguished artist, who painted the portraits of the most eminent See also:people of his See also:day, and played an important See also:part in society. At the See also:age of fourteen William Richmond entered the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools, where he worked for about three years. A visit to See also:Italy in 1859 gave him See also:special opportunity for studying the See also:works of the old masters, and had an important effect upon his development. His first Academy picture was a portrait See also:group (1861); and to this succeeded, during the next three years, several other pictures of the same class. In 1865 he returned to Italy, and spent four years there, living chiefly at See also:Rome. To this See also:period belongs the large See also:canvas. " A Procession in See also:Honour of Bacchus," which he exhibited at the Academy in 1869 when he came back to See also:England. His picture, An See also:Audience at See also:Athens," was exhibited at the Grosvenor See also:Gallery in 1885. He became See also:Slade See also:professor at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, succeeding See also:Ruskin, in 1878, but resigned three years later. He was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy in 1888 and Royal Academician in 1895; he received the degree of D.C.L. in 1896, and a See also:knighthood of the See also:Bath in 1897, and became professor of See also:painting to the Royal Academy. Apart from his pictures, he is notable for his See also:work in decorative See also:art, his most conspicuous achievement being the See also:internal decoration and the See also:glass mosaics of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral. Sir William Richmond also took a keen See also:interest in social questions, particularly in See also:smoke-prevention in London.
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