born Sept. 19, 1806, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scot.
died Feb. 14, 1864, London
Scottish painter and pioneer of state art education in Great
Britain.
Dyce studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, and the Royal
Academy schools, London. One of the first British students of early
Italian Renaissance painting, he visited Italy in 1825 and 1827–28,
meeting in Rome a group of young German painters, the Nazarenes. He
exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, being elected associate of
the Royal Academy in 1844 and academician in 1848. In 1830–37 in
Edinburgh he made portraits for a livelihood. But his Italian
studies led him to anticipate the English Pre-Raphaelites in the
quest for a primitivist simplicity and repose in his painting that
harked back to the art of 14th- and 15th-centuryItaly.
At the time of his death Dyce was engaged in painting a series of
frescoes for the Houses of Parliament, of which remain the “Baptism
of Ethelbert” in the House of Lords (1846) and the “King Arthur”
series (1848; unfinished) in the queen's robing room.
Madonna and Child 1827
The Good Shepherd
Joab Loses the Arrow of Grace 1844
Recollection
of Pegwell Bay
Titian's First Essay in Colour
Amongst
the Trees
Omnia
Vanitas
King Lear and the Fool in the Storm
Madonna
Francesca da Rimini
The Woman of Samaria
Henry VI at Towton
Eliezer of Damascus
1860
Piety: The Knights of the Round Table about to Depart
in Quest of the Holy Grail
Lamentation Over the Dead Christ 1835
Dante and Beatrice
Miss Anne Webster 1833
The Choristers - Design For A Stained Glass Window In Ely
Cathedral 1856
The Man of Sorrows 1860
Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of
the Sea
Girl at a Casement
Old Woman
Boy Reclining by a Pool
Cottage Interior
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