Samuel Waller

1850 - 1903

Samuel Edmund Waller ROI (18 June 1850 - 14 June 1903) was an English painter of animals, historical and genre scenes who painted in oils. His father, Frederick Sandham Waller, was an architect practising in Gloucester and restored considerable portions of Gloucester Cathedral. Young Waller studied at Gloucester School of Art, under John Kemp and at the RA Schools, from 1869 and went through a course of architectural studies in his father's office. The training proved of service to him as many of his pictures have architectural backgrounds. Exhibited at the RA from 1871 and in 1872 he went to Iceland, and published an illustrated account of his travels entitled 'Six Weeks in the Saddle'. Elected ROI 1883 and worked as an illustrator for 'The Graphic' from 1873. He was an excellent equestrian painter and painted several fox-hunting scenes including 'The Huntsman's Courtship' dated 1899, 'An Afternoon Ride' dated 1894, 'The day of Reckoning' and 'At the Window' dated 1891 (the latter not a hunting scene but a rather genre interpretation of a lady and gentleman by a window feeding sugar lumps to a horse). His chief and best-known pictures were Jealous (1875), now in National Gallery, Melbourne; The Way of the World (1876), Home? (1877), now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Empty Saddle (1879), with an architectural setting taken from Burford Priory, Oxforshire: Success! (1881) and Sweethearts and Wives (1882), both in the Tate Gallery. Later works are The Day of Reckoning (1883), Peril (1886) The Morning of Agincourt (1888), In His Father's Footsteps (1889), Dawn (1890),

Samuel Edmund Waller ROI (18 June 1850 - 14 June 1903) was an English painter of animals, historical and genre scenes who painted in oils. His father, Frederick Sandham Waller, was an architect practising in Gloucester and restored considerable portions of Gloucester Cathedral. Young Waller studied at Gloucester School of Art, under John Kemp and at the RA Schools, from 1869 and went through a course of architectural studies in his father's office. The training proved of service to him as many of his pictures have architectural backgrounds. Exhibited at the RA from 1871 and in 1872 he went to Iceland, and published an illustrated account of his travels entitled 'Six Weeks in the Saddle'. Elected ROI 1883 and worked as an illustrator for 'The Graphic' from 1873. He was an excellent equestrian painter and painted several fox-hunting scenes including 'The Huntsman's Courtship' dated 1899, 'An Afternoon Ride' dated 1894, 'The day of Reckoning' and 'At the Window' dated 1891 (the latter not a hunting scene but a rather genre interpretation of a lady and gentleman by a window feeding sugar lumps to a horse). His chief and best-known pictures were Jealous (1875), now in National Gallery, Melbourne; The Way of the World (1876), Home? (1877), now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Empty Saddle (1879), with an architectural setting taken from Burford Priory, Oxforshire: Success! (1881) and Sweethearts and Wives (1882), both in the Tate Gallery. Later works are The Day of Reckoning (1883), Peril (1886) The Morning of Agincourt (1888), In His Father's Footsteps (1889), Dawn (1890),

One-and-Twenty (1991) The Ruined Sanctuary (1892), Alone! (1896), Safe (1898), Mt Hero (1902).

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