1817-1904 English painter and sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy and in Italy, where he developed an enthusiasm for Renaissance painting and Greek sculpture that greatly influenced his work. He executed several decorative commissions, including his large fresco Justice (Lincoln's Inn, London), modeled after Raphael's School of Athens. Many of his allegorical pictures are in the Tate Gallery, London. The National Portrait Gallery, London, contains a large collection of his portraits of eminent contemporaries. The Metropolitan Museum has his Ariadne in Naxos.  Related Paintings of George Frederick watts,O.M.,R.A. :. | The Ancient Town of Agrigentum A Composite Landscape (mk05) | Castaways at strands | View of the Winter Smoking Room with Medieval Figures | Hl. Romanus und Hl. Barulas von Antiochien | Haymakers |
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johann melchior wyrsch
johann melchior wyrsch (1732-98) was born in buochs, switzerland. in 1753 he went to rome to study with gaetano lapis and then at the academie francaise.