John Collier

John Collier

1850 — 1934

British Pre-Raphaelite painter and author (1850-1934)

John Maler Collier was an English painter and writer. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

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All Hallowe'en

Portrait of James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot de Malahide (1805-1883)

Portrait of James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot de Malahide (1805-1883)

John Collier National Gallery of Ireland

Watkin Williams, Bishop of Bangor

Watkin Williams, Bishop of Bangor

Trompe l'oeil painting

Trompe l'oeil painting

John Collier Fitzwilliam Museum

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Marian Collier (née Huxley)

Marian Collier (née Huxley)

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Clytemnestra

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

John Collier Tate Britain

Pharaoh's Handmaidens

Pharaoh's Handmaidens

Charles Darwin

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of Alma Tadema

Portrait of Alma Tadema

John Collier Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui

Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892

Sir George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Circe

Lilith

Priestess of Delphi

Priestess of Delphi

John Collier Art Gallery of South Australia

All Hallowe’en (1895)

All Hallowe’en (1895)

John Perowne (1823-1904), Bishop of Worcester

John Perowne (1823-1904), Bishop of Worcester

Pope Urban VI

Godiva

John Collier Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield

Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

William Kingdon Clifford

William Kingdon Clifford

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

John Clifford

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

George Smith

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

William Hillier, 4th Earl of Onslow (1853-1911)

William Hillier, 4th Earl of Onslow (1853-1911)

Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds

Sir William Huggins

Sir William Huggins

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Self portrait

John Collier Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui

Sir Michael Foster

Sir Michael Foster

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Sir (Mary) Valentine Ignatius Chirol

Sir (Mary) Valentine Ignatius Chirol

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

Eve

A Fallen Idol

John Collier Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Clytemnestra

John Collier Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

Mrs Campbell McInnes (later Angela Thirkell)

Mrs Campbell McInnes (later Angela Thirkell)

John Collier National Gallery of Victoria

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dramatist

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dramatist

John Collier National Gallery of Ireland

Gilbert Henry Barford (1868–1929), Mayor of Bedford (1922–1926 & 1928)

Gilbert Henry Barford (1868–1929), Mayor of Bedford (1922–1926 & 1928)

Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

An Incantation

John Collier Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Artemis

Brigadier-General Charles Spragge, CB, Mayor of Torquay (1909–1911)

Brotherhood of Man

Edward Caird (1835–1908), FBA, Snell Exhibitioner (1860), Master (1893–1908), Philosopher

Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898)

Fire

John Collier Royal Pump Rooms

Firelight (Mrs England as a young woman?)

Gloucester Docks

Henry Trentham Butlin (1845–1912)

Hetty Sorrel

John Bland-Sutton (1855–1936)

John Laird Mair Lawrence

John Lubbock (1834–1913), 1st Baron Avebury, Banker, Politician, Biologist and Archaeologist

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

Mary Ann Griffith, née Kinder (1857–1915)

Montana

John Collier Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

Mrs Osborne

John Collier The Box

Samuel Radcliffe Platt, Mayor of Oldham (1887–1889)

Samuel Whitbread (1830–1915), MP for Bedford

Self Portrait

John Collier The Box

Sentence of Death

John Collier Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Sir Bignell George Elliott, KBE

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt (1860–1929), MP

Sir George Campbell (1824–1892)

Sir Landon Ronald (1873–1938), Principal of the Guildhall School of Music (1910–1938)

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

Sir William Mitchell Banks (1842–1904), MD, FRCS, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy (1894–1904)

John Collier Victoria Gallery & Museum

Souvenir of Chu Chin Chow

John Collier Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

The Connoisseur, Reginald Barratt (1861–1917), RWS

John Collier Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery

The Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle (1835–1907)

The Minx

John Collier Museum & Art Swindon

The Queen's Shilling

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

William Fred Collier

John Collier The Box

Young Girl Draped in a Tiger Skin (once said to be Bacchus)

Emmeline 'Nina' Mary Elizabeth Welby-Gregory, Mrs Henry John Cockayne-Cust (1867-1955)

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879)

Mrs Mortimer Collier and Family

John Collier The Box

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)

Francis Dukinfield Astley (b.1853?)

James Prescott Joule (1818–1889)

Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882)

Blanche Parish, Lady Shuttleworth (1851-1924)

Mrs George Harland Peck (1852–1939), née Agnes Mayglothing

Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Bt (1844-1939)

The Reverend Norman Macleod Ferrers, DD

William Rosser

William Spottiswoode (1825–1883)

Colonel Sir Francis Brockman Morley, KCB, Chairman of the Middlesex County Sessions

Maenads

Meadow Sweet

Sir George Jessel (1824–1883)

The Three Daughters of William Reed

John Collier Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

Professor Alexander W. Williamson (1824–1904)

Professor Alexander W. Williamson (1824–1904)

William B. Carpenter (1813–1885), Half-Length

Sir George Williams (1821–1905), Founder of the YMCA

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

George Earlam Thorley (1830–1904), Warden (1881–1903)

John Elliott Burns

John Collier National Portrait Gallery

A Water Baby

John Collier Lady Lever Art Gallery

Nettie and Joyce

Professor Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), FRS

John Collier Bolton Museum

Samuel Whitbread (1830–1915), MP for Bedford

The Death of Cleopatra

Touchstone and Audrey

Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Bt (1852-1929), as Mayor of Wolverhampton

Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957), FRAM, as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl'

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

William Rutherford Ancrum, Esq.

Alfred Salwey

John James Stewart Perowne (1823–1904), Fellow (1849–1864), Bishop of Worcester (1891–1901)

Lady Darling

John Collier Southampton City Art Gallery

A Glass of Wine with Caesar Borgia

A. N. Hornby (1847–1925)

Lady Laing (1831–1913)

John Collier Laing Art Gallery

Mabel Terry-Lewis (1872–1957)

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Sir Isaac Wilson (1822–1899)

Sir James Laing (1823–1901)

John Collier Laing Art Gallery

Alderman Sinclair

James Andrew (1829–1897)

John Collier Barts Health Archives

Cecilia Loftus (1876–1943)

George Crispe Whiteley, MA

Sir Charles Hall (1843–1900), Recorder of London

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

The Death of Albine

William Charles Lucy (1822–1898)

Colonel Sir Henry St John Halford (1828–1897), Bt, CB, VD, Chairman of Leicestershire County Council (1889–1893)

Devonshire Orchard

James Laing (1823–1901)

Felix Thornley Cobbold (1841–1909)

Queen Guinevere's Maying

John Collier Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

John Richard Magrath (1839–1930), Provost (1878–1930)

William Munk (1816–1898)

Richard Garnett (1835–1906)

Brotherhood of Man

Doris Allen, Lady Vernon (1883 -1962)

George Warrington Stevens, War Correspondent

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

In the Venusberg

Joseph Russell Bailey (1840–1906), 1st Baron Glanusk

The Hon. Florence Rachel Hamilton-Russell (d.1957)

The Right Honourable Samuel Cunliffe Lister (1815–1906), Baron Masham of Swinton

Thomas Smith, Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital (1873–1898)

John Collier Barts Health Archives

Major Sir Gangha Singh, Maharajah of Bikanir (1880-1943)

Matthew Hinchliffe (1828–1897), MD, MRCS

Portrait of Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart.

John Collier Art Gallery of South Australia

Sir Andrew Mitchell Torrance (1846–1909)

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

Sir Willoughby Heyett Dickinson (1859–1943), Politician

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

The Very Reverend John Julias Hannah

Egg Dance

John Collier The New Art Gallery Walsall

Henry Butlin (1845–1907), Pioneer of Head and Neck Surgery

John Collier Barts Health Archives

Lewis Waller (1860–1915), as Monsieur Beaucaire (from 'Monsieur Beaucaire' by André Messager) (from 'Monsieur Beaucaire' by André Messager)

John Collier Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Richard Gunstone (1840–1924), Steward of the Junior Common Room (1880–1914)

The Prodigal Daughter

The Prodigal Daughter (sketch)

Captain Percy Scott (1853–1924), RN, CVO, CB, LLD

Lord Monkswell (1845–1909), Politician

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

S. Wilkins

John Collier Whitworth Art Gallery

Sir Charles Strickland (1819–1909)

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (1847–1929)

The Sinner

Sir John Evans

John Collier Ashmolean Museum

Sir John Evans (1823–1908), KCB, FRS, Chairman of Quarter Sessions and the County Council

Sir William Huggins (1824–1910)

Major General M. W. E. Gossett (1839–1909), CB

Mariage de convenance

Richard William Alan (1876–1945), Viscount Cranley

Sir Edwin Cornwall (1863–1953), Politician and Coal Merchant

John Collier Guildhall Art Gallery

The Right Honourable T. F. Halsey (1839–1927), MP for Hertfordshire (1874–1885) and for the Watford Division (1885–1906)

George John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866) (from a photograph of 1859)

Michael Foster (1830–1907)

William Dalrymple Maclagan

Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850–1916), 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Field Marshal, British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt

Robert Benson Jowitt (b.1839)

Sir Samuel Butler Provis (1845–1927), Permanent Secretary, Local Government Board (1900–1910)

Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891)

Colonel Sir George Dixon (1842–1924), 1st Bt, Chairman of Cheshire County Council (1893–1922)

Sir John Bland-Sutton (1865–1936), Bt, PRCS

Herbert William Walmisley

Edward George Percy Littleton (1842–1930), 3rd Baron Hatherton

Herbrand Arthur Russell (1858–1937), 11th Duke Bedford, KG, KBE, FRS

Herbrand Arthur Russell (1858–1940), 11th Duke of Bedford

John Morley (1838–1923), Viscount Morley, Old Member

Edward Clodd (1840–1930)

Vendetta

John Collier Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

'For King and Country'

Alderman Sir William Purdie Treloar, Bt (1843–1923)

Henry Gee (c.1858–1939), MA, DD, FSA

Lieutenant Evan Davies Jones, Royal Flying Corps

Sacred and Profane Love

William Regester (1848–1929), Chairman of Middlesex County Council (1909–1919)

Sir Frederick George Banbury (Lord Banbury), Chairman, Great Northern Railway (1917–1922)

Theban Hills from Luxor

Mrs Huxley

Meditation

John Collier Touchstones Rochdale

Portrait of Unknown Soldier

Richard Hill Dawe, Solicitor to the Great Northern Railway (1898–1923)

A Street in Jerusalem

Councillor Edgar Home, Mayor of Westminster (1923–1924)

Charles A. Watts (1858–1946)

George Henry Heilbuth, Mayor of Westminster (1925–1926)

Colonel Arthur Stuart Daniel, Chairman of Godstone Rural District Council (1900–1935)

Dr James Reginald Ashworth (1861–1950)

John Collier Touchstones Rochdale

Portrait of a Mayor

Stepping Stones: Pamela

John Collier The Whitaker

Thomas Huxley (1825–1895)

The Amber Necklace

John Collier Grundy Art Gallery

The Beggar Man

Mother of Pearl

John Collier Hepworth Wakefield