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"Augustus Egg" published on by null. (b London, 2 May 1816; d Algiers, 26 Mar. 1863).English painter. He painted historical, anecdotal, and literary themes (he was a friend of Dickens and a talented actor), and under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites he also turned to overtly moralizing subjects.
As a symbolic parallel, perhaps, Egg reinforces the contrast by showing the children in the same room as the corpse of a woman--most likely their mother. Like two important influences for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, The Arnolfini Portrait and Hogarth's Industry and Idleness , Egg's painting makes room for both profound questions of morality, religious truth and everyday human relations.
Augustus Leopold Egg. Augustus Leopold Egg was born in London on 2nd May 1816. He attended Henry Sass Drawing School in preparation for entering the Royal Academy. His painting A Spanish Girl was accepted by the Academy in 1838. At about this time he formed The Clique, a sketching club, with William Powell Frith and Richard Dadd.
As a young man Egg was a member of the artistic group 'The Clique,' whose other members included Richard Dadd and W P Frith. He initially painted historical pictures. Egg was one of the few Royal Academicians who was sympathetic to, and was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and under their influence turned to painting pictures of modern life. Personally he was an easy-going benign individual ...
30 de jun. de 2022 · L'équipe. Comment voyageait-on au XIXe siècle ? Le voyage nous apparait aujourd'hui comme un fait social si évident qu'on pourrait le croire naturel. Pourtant, notre représentation actuelle de celui-ci trouve sa source au XIXe siècle, dans une histoire qui croise celles de la technique, la science, les arts, l'éducation, la politique, la ...
16 de mar. de 2007 · Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-63) enjoyed one of the most ridiculous names in the history of art. He aspired to be a Hogarthian painter - moralising, humorous, popular.
