Henry Ryland RI, 1856-1924
Signed, inscribed on the reverse
Tempera over pencil on artist's board
The Titian-haired beauty is influenced, of course, from those 'Stunners' of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, or perhaps more directly the images of Frederick Sandys. The aesthetic background, again in common with the works of Sandys, stems initially from the designs of William Morris. Henry Ryland had trained and studied under Benjamin Constant and Boulanger, Lefebvre and Carmon in Paris, but it was Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings which captured his imagination.
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