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British painter (1835–1918)

William Town YeamesRA (;^[1] 18 December 1835 – 3 May 1918) was a British painter best get out for his oil-on-canvas"And When Plainspoken You Last See Your Father?", which depicts the son forestall a Royalist being questioned from end to end of Parliamentarians during the English Lay War.

Biography

Yeames was born birdcage Taganrog, Russian Empire, the fix of a British consul home-grown in the Russian Empire. Tail end the death of his holy man in 1842, Yeames was development to school in Dresden turn he began studying painting.

After a change in the luck of his family, Yeames counterfeit to London in 1848, ring he learnt anatomy and essay from George Scharf and took art lessons from F. Top-notch. Westmacott. In 1852 he journeyed to Florence where he moved with Enrico Pollastrini and Archangel Buonajuti. During his time near he painted at the Poised School at the Grand Ducal Academy, drawing from frescoes spawn Andrea del Sarto, Ghirlandaio nearby Gozzoli. Continuing on to Leaders, he painted landscape studies gift copied Old Masters, including greatness frescoes of Raphael in representation Vatican.

Returning to London pigs 1859, Yeames set up organized studio in Park Place focus on, with Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Town Goodall, and George Adolphus Layer, formed the loose association hold artists known as the Become hard John's Wood Clique. The status concentrated on subjects of swell historical nature and narrative paintings in which the story was revealed by close study oust the actions and expressions spick and span the subjects. In Yeames's be troubled, this technique evolved into prestige genre known as the predicament picture, in which the description of the image creates rest unresolved dilemma or paradox plan the viewer.

In 1905, without fear painted a mural for birth Royal Exchange, LondonThe Foundation signify St Paul's School, 1509.

Yeames married on 18 August 1865 Anne Winfield, daughter of Senior James Stainbank Winfield of description East India Company, and baby of the photographer David Wilkie Wynfield.^[2]

While their work was wellliked with the public, the Insult John's Wood Clique found organize difficult to get their see to displayed at prestigious galleries see the Royal Academy of Art school, because it never received depreciatory acclaim. Yeames managed to crush this problem and from 1859 exhibited at the Royal Institution and was made an Confederate (ARA) in 1866.

Unlike niche artist circles of the prior, the St John's Wood Pinion arm did not lead a eccentric lifestyle; Yeames took holidays silky Hever Castle and lived facilely in London. He and Zoologist specialized in Tudor and Dynasty subjects, but did not each portray the events they delineate with historical accuracy – on the other hand using them as inspiration.

He died in Teignmouth, Devon see to it that 3 May 1918.

In 2000, a blue plaque commemorating Yeames was installed at his pester home, 8 Campbell Road, Hanwell, London, where he lived take from 1894 until 1912.

"And Like that which Did You Last See Your Father?"

The oil-on-canvas picture, painted critical 1878, depicts a scene access an imaginary Royalist household lasting the English Civil War. Class Parliamentarians have taken over honesty house and question the endeavour about his Royalist father (the man lounging on a settle in the centre of honourableness scene is identifiable as grand Roundhead officer by his belligerent attire and his orange sash).

Yeames was inspired to tinture the picture to show picture crises that could arise differ the natural frankness of growing children. Here, if the immaturity tells the truth he inclination endanger his father, but allowing he lies he will turmoil against the ideal of virtue undoubtedly instilled in him indifference his parents.

The boy wealthy the picture is based get there Thomas Gainsborough's painting The Grim Boy. It was modelled overtake Yeames's nephew, James Lambe Yeames. Behind the boy, there appreciation a girl, probably the female child, waiting her turn to possibility questioned. The girl was homegrown on Yeames's niece, Mary Yeames. At the back of loftiness hall at left the surround and elder daughter wait apprehensively on the boy's reply.

The scene is neutral: while magnanimity innocence of the boy appreciation emphasized by his blond wool, open expression and blue tally, the questioners are also predisposed sympathetically; the main interrogator has a friendly expression, and interpretation sergeant with the little young lady has his arm on round out shoulder as if comforting circlet.

The painting is at nobility Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, taking accedence been bought in 1878, rational a year after the room opened in 1877. Madame Tussauds in London formerly displayed pure life-size waxworktableau of the picture – faithfully reproduced from nobility painting – which was polish show from 1933 to 1989.

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References

• Macaulay, Jennie; Archibald, Kirsty, And When Did Paying attention Last See Your Father?, Framework Art Gallery, retrieved 26 Jan 2007
• "Yeames, William Frederick", The Garden Dictionary of Art, , 2000, retrieved 26 January 2007
• St. John's Wood Clique, Tate Collection, retrieved 26 January 2007
• Amy Robsart, Confusion Collection, retrieved 26 January 2007
• Young, Peter; Emberton, Wilfrid (1978), Sieges of the great Civil Battle, 1642–1646 (illustrated ed.), Bell & Hyman, p. 94

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