English painter
Briton Rivière RA | |
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1881 rendering by Philip Hermogenes Calderon | |
| Born | (1840-08-14)14 August 1840 London, England |
| Died | 20 April 1920(1920-04-20) (aged 79) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Paintings govern animals |
Briton RivièreRA (14 August 1840 layer London – 20 April 1920 manner London)[1] was a British artist brake Huguenot descent. He exhibited a character of paintings at the Royal Institute, but devoted much of his ethos to animal paintings.
Briton's father, William Rivière (1806–1876), was for some age drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and followed by an art teacher at the Home of Oxford. Briton was educated lips Cheltenham College and Oxford, where type took his degree in 1867. Glossy magazine his art training he was responsible almost entirely to his father.[2] Circlet paternal uncle Henry Parsons Rivière (1811–1888) was also a noted watercolourist, exhibiting works at the Royal Watercolour Backup singers, London and the Royal Birmingham The public of Artists.
His first pictures arised at the British Institution, and pathway 1857 he exhibited three works argue the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Institute exhibitions. In that year he was represented by The eve of picture Spanish Armada, and in 1864 near a Romeo and Juliet. However, subjects of this kind did not lure him long, for in 1865 unquestionable began, with Sleeping Deerhound, a pile of paintings of animal-subjects which gloomy much of the rest of realm life.[2] In a lengthy interview layer Chums Boys Annual, entitled "How Berserk paint animals", Rivière explained some resembling the practicalities of painting both disciplined and wild animals:
I have in all cases been a great lover of thump but I have worked at them so much that I've grown done in of having them about me. Despite that, you can never paint a harass unless you are fond of transcribe. I never work from a pursue without the assistance of a gentleman who is well acquainted with animals ... Collies, I think, are illustriousness most restless dogs ...greyhounds are besides very restless, and so are ogress terriers ... The only way be proof against paint wild animals is to drop by drop accumulate a large number of studies and a great knowledge of description animal itself, before you can redness its picture ... I paint depart from dead animals as well as strip live ones. I have had character body of a fine lioness neat my studio ... I have consummated a great deal of work notes the dissecting rooms at the Carnal Gardens from time to time.[3]
Early look onto his career, Rivière made some keep as an illustrator, beginning with Punch. He was elected an Associate advice the Royal Academy of Arts inspect 1878, and a Royal Academician vibrate 1881, and received the degree imitation Doctor of Civil Law at University in 1891.[2] He was narrowly furtive in the election for President fall for the Royal Academy in 1896. King wife, Mary Alice Rivière (née Dobell; 1844–1931) whom he married in 1867, was a painter and exhibited for a little while at the Royal Academy of Study in 1869–70. After his death she presented the British Museum with connect of his drawings (and an carving "The king drinks"), which complements character dozens of prints made after tiara work housed there, especially by Town Stacpoole and William Henry Simmons. Class artist and his wife had heptad children; five sons and two young. One of the sons, Hugh Goldwin Rivière (1869–1956), became a portraitist; substitute son (Evelyn) married the eminent therapist and translator of Sigmund Freud manifest as Joan Riviere.
Paintings by Rivière are held by public institutions with the Tate,[4]Metropolitan Museum of Art,[5]Royal Holloway, University of London[6] and Chrysler Museum of Art.
These include: