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RIVIERE, BRITON (1840- )

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RIVIERE, BRITON (1840- ) , See also:English artist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 14th of See also:August 184o. His See also:father, See also:William Riviere, was for some years See also:drawing-See also:master at See also:Cheltenham See also:College, and afterwards an See also:art teacher at See also:Oxford. He was educated at Cheltenham College and at Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867. For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father, and See also:early in See also:life made for him-self a See also:place of importance among the artists of his See also:time. His first pictures appeared at the See also:British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three See also:works at the Royal See also:Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a See also:regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions. In that See also:year he was represented by "The See also:Eve of the See also:Spanish See also:Armada," and in 1864 by a "Romeo and Juliet." Subjects of this See also:kind did not, however, attract him See also:long, for in 1865 he began, with a picture of a " Sleeping Deerhound," that See also:series of paintings of See also:animal-subjects which has since occupied him almost exclusively. Among the mostmemorable of his productions are: " The Poacher's See also:Nurse ^ (1866), " See also:Circe " (1871), " See also:Daniel " (1872), " The Last of the See also:Garrison " (1875), " See also:Lazarus " (1897), " See also:Persepolis " (1878), " In Manus Tuas, Domine " (1879), " The Magician's See also:Doorway " (1832), " Vae Victis " (1885), " Rizpah " (1886), " An Old-See also:Work, Wanderer " (1887), " Of a See also:Fool and his Folly there is no End " (1889), " A Mighty See also:Hunter before the See also:Lord " (1891), " The See also:King's See also:Libation " (1893), " Beyond See also:Man's See also:Foot-steps " (1894), now in the See also:National See also:Gallery of British Art; See also:Phoebus See also:Apollo " (1895); " See also:Aggravation " (1896), " St See also:George " (19oo), and " To the Hills " (1901). He has also painted portraits; and at the outset of his career made some See also:mark as an illustrator, beginning with See also:Punch. He was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy in 1878, and R.A. in 1881, and received the degree of D.C.L. at Oxford in 1891. See See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Armstrong, " Briton Riviere, R.A.; His Life and Work," Art See also:Annual (1891).

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