Museum of Art/John William Waterhouse Hall

J. W. Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (6 April 1849 — 10 February 1917) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter who is most famous for his paintings of female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology.

Waterhouse was one of the final Pre-Raphaelite artists, being most productive in the latter decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th, long after the era of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Because of this, he has been referred to as "the modern Pre-Raphaelite", and incorporated techniques borrowed from the French Impressionists into his work.

The Collection

The Lady of Shalott by J.W. Waterhouse (1888)

Ulysses and the Sirens by J.W. Waterhouse (1891)

Ophelia by J.W. Waterhouse (1894)

Lamia by J.W. Waterhouse (1905)

Boreas

Tristan and Isolde, 1916

Thisbe, 1909

Echo and Narcissus, 1903

Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus, 1900

Pandora, 1896

Cleopatra, 1888

The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of his Mother, 1878