Edward Poynter
Edward Poynter | |
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Edward Poynter, 1877 (Alphonse Legros) | |
Born | Edward John Poynter (1836-03-20)20 March 1836 Paris, France |
Died | 26 July 1919(1919-07-26) (aged 83) London, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | Brighton College Ipswich School |
Occupation(s) | Painter, designer, and draughtsman |
Spouse | Agnes MacDonald |
Children | 3 |
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet GCVO, PRA (20 March 1836 – 26 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy.
Life
Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter. He was born in Paris, France, though his parents returned to Britain soon after his birth. He was educated at Brighton College and Ipswich School, but left school early for reasons of ill health, spending winters in Madeira and Rome. In 1853, he met Frederick Leighton in Rome, who made a great impression on the 17-year-old Poynter. On his return to London he studied at Leigh's Academy in Newman Street and the Royal Academy Schools, before going to Paris to study in the studio of the classicist painter Charles Gleyre where James McNeill Whistler and George du Maurier were fellow-students.
In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev. G. B. MacDonald of Wolverhampton, and they had three children. Her sister Georgiana married the artist Edward Burne-Jones; her sister Alice was the mother of writer Rudyard Kipling; and her sister Louisa was the mother of three-times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Stanley Baldwin.
Poynter's sister Clara Bell became a noted translator of literary and scientific works.
Career
He became best known for his large historical paintings such as Israel in Egypt (1867; Guildhall Art Gallery, London), followed by St George for England (1869), a mosaic for the Central Lobby of the Palace of Westminster, depicting St George and the Dragon[1] and perhaps culminating with The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1884–90; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). He was admitted as an associate of the Royal Academy in 1869.[2]
Poynter held a number of official posts: he was the first Slade Professor at University College London from 1871 to 1875, principal of the National Art Training School from 1875 to 1881 and director of the National Gallery from 1894 to 1904 (overseeing the opening of the Tate Gallery). He became a full Royal Academician in 1876. In 1896, on the death of Sir John Millais, Poynter was elected President of the Academy.[3] He received a knighthood in the same year and an honorary degree from Cambridge University in 1898.[4] It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII,[5] and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Albert Gate, in the city of Westminster, in the county of London.[6]
Poynter's old school, Brighton College, held an exhibition of Poynter's paintings and drawings entitled Life at Arms Length in its Burstow Gallery in November–December 1995.[7]
Works
Paintings
- At Low Tide
- The Siren (1864)
- The Cave of the Storm Nymphs (1903; Private collection)
- Psyche in the Temple of Love
- Andromeda, Edward Poynter, 1869
- Portrait of Lillie Langtry, 1878
- Corner of the Marketplace (1887)
- Pea Blossoms
- Israel in Egypt (1867)
- Catapulta
- Barine (1894)
- The Vision of Endymion (1902)
- Women Consulting Aesculapius
- Wild Blossoms (c. 1880)
- The Ides of March (1883)
Stained glass
Early in his career, Poynter designed some works in stained glass.[8] Parts of the original designs were sometimes re-used in later windows.
Written works
- Ten lectures on art. London: Chapman and Hall. 1880.
- German, Flemish and Dutch painting. Scribner and Welford. 1881. with Buxton, H. J. Wilmot (co-author)
- Classic and Italian painting. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1890. with Percy Head (co-author)
References
Citations
- ^ Jarrold Publishing, Norwich. Palace of Westminster Collection
- ^ "The Register, Adelaide, June 27, 1902". Trove. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Poynter, Edward John (PNTR898SE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "The Coronation Honours". The Times. No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 5.
- ^ "No. 27457". The London Gazette. 25 July 1902. p. 4738.
- ^ "Sir Edward John Poynter (Brighton College 1849-50)". Old Brightonians - The Alumni of Brighton College. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Brooks, Alan. The Stained Glass Designs of Sir Edward Poynter. Victorian Society Annual, 1996, pp 27–36.
- ^ Cornish Stained Glass, St Ia, St Ives, Cornwall, Tower west
Sources
- Bell, Malcolm (1905). Drawings of Sir E. J. Poynter. London: G. Newnes, Ltd.
- Calinski, Tobias (2021): Edward J. Poynter "Lesbia and her Sparrow", in: Catull in Bild und Ton, WBG Darmstadt, 223-261
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Poynter, Sir Edward John" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 239.
- Gaunt, William (1975). Victorian Olympus. London: Sphere Books Ltd. pp. 42–151, 166. ISBN 9780351164200.
External links
- 52 artworks by or after Edward Poynter at the Art UK site
- Edward Poynter online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Edward Poynter – biography and paintings (artmagick.com)
- Edward Poynter – biography and paintings (Art Renewal Center)
- Poynter, Edward John, Sir (Dictionary of Art Historians)
- Pears Soap Company & Sir Edward Poynter – "At Low Tide" ("Art of the Print")
- Works by Edward Poynter at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edward Poynter at Internet Archive
Cultural offices | ||
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Preceded by | President of the Royal Academy 1896–1918 | Succeeded by |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baronet (of Albert Gate) 1902–1919 | Succeeded by Ambrose Poynter |
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- The Light That Failed (1891)
- The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (co-author, Wolcott Balestier, 1892)
- Captains Courageous (1896)
- Kim (1901)
- Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
- Soldiers Three (1888)
- The Story of the Gadsbys (1888)
- In Black and White (1888)
- The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888)
- Under the Deodars (1888)
- Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)
- From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel (1889)
- Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, poetry)
- Many Inventions (1893)
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- "Mowgli's Brothers"
- "Kaa's Hunting"
- "Tiger! Tiger!"
- "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
- The Second Jungle Book (1895)
- "Letting in the Jungle"
- "Red Dog"
- All the Mowgli Stories (c. 1895)
- The Seven Seas (1896, poetry)
- The Day's Work (1898)
- Stalky & Co. (1899)
- Just So Stories (1902)
- The Five Nations (1903, poetry)
- Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
- Rewards and Fairies (1910)
- The Fringes of the Fleet (1915, non-fiction)
- Debits and Credits (1926)
- Limits and Renewals (1932)
- Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (1940)
- A Choice of Kipling's Verse (by T. S. Eliot, 1941)
- "The Absent-Minded Beggar"
- "The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown'"
- "The Ballad of East and West"
- "The Beginnings"
- "The Bell Buoy"
- "The Betrothed"
- "Big Steamers"
- "Boots"
- "Cold Iron"
- "Dane-geld"
- "Danny Deever"
- "A Death-Bed"
- "The Female of the Species"
- "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"
- "Gentleman ranker"
- "The Gods of the Copybook Headings"
- "Gunga Din"
- "Hymn Before Action"
- "If—"
- "In the Neolithic Age"
- "The King's Pilgrimage"
- "The Last of the Light Brigade"
- "The Lowestoft Boat"
- "Mandalay"
- "The Mary Gloster"
- "McAndrew's Hymn"
- "My Boy Jack"
- "Recessional"
- "A Song in Storm"
- "The Sons of Martha"
- "Submarines"
- "The Sweepers"
- "Tommy"
- "Ubique"
- "The White Man's Burden"
- ".007"
- "The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly"
- "Baa Baa, Black Sheep"
- "Bread upon the Waters"
- "The Broken-Link Handicap"
- "The Butterfly that Stamped"
- "Consequences"
- "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin"
- "Cupid's Arrows"
- "The Devil and the Deep Sea"
- "The Drums of the Fore and Aft"
- "Fairy-Kist"
- "False Dawn"
- "A Germ-Destroyer"
- "His Chance in Life"
- "His Wedded Wife"
- "In the House of Suddhoo"
- "Kidnapped"
- "Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris"
- "Lispeth"
- "The Man Who Would Be King"
- "A Matter of Fact"
- "Miss Youghal's Sais"
- "The Mother Hive"
- "The Other Man"
- "The Rescue of Pluffles"
- "The Ship that Found Herself"
- "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
- "The Taking of Lungtungpen"
- "Three and – an Extra"
- "The Three Musketeers"
- "Thrown Away"
- "Toomai of the Elephants"
- "Watches of the Night"
- "Wireless"
- "Yoked with an Unbeliever"
- Bibliography
- Bateman's (house)
- Indian Railway Library
- Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
- Law of the jungle
- Aerial Board of Control
- My Boy Jack (1997 play)
- Rudyard Kipling: A Remembrance Tale (2006 documentary)
- My Boy Jack (2007 film)
- Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling (wife)
- Elsie Bambridge (daughter)
- John Kipling (son)
- John Lockwood Kipling (father)
- MacDonald sisters (mother's family)
- Stanley Baldwin (cousin)
- Georgiana Burne-Jones (aunt)
- Edward Burne-Jones (uncle)
- Philip Burne-Jones (cousin)
- Edward Poynter (uncle)
- Alfred Baldwin (uncle)