John Collier. John Maler Collier was a leading English artist, and an author.
He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley.
He studied painting at the Munich Academy starting in 1875. Collier was from a talented and successful family.
His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a Member of Parliament. His father, Robert, was created the first Lord Monkswell.
He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. John Collier's elder brother, the second Lord Monkswell, was Under-Secretary of State for War and Chairman of the London County Council. In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, President of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. Collier married two of Huxley's daughters and was on terms of intimate friendship with his son, the writer Leonard Huxley. Collier's first wife, in 1879, was Marian Huxley. She was a painter who studied, like her husband, at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. After the birth of their only child, a daughter, she suffered severe post-natal depression and was taken to Paris for treatment where, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in 1887. Collier's daughter by his first marriage, Joyce, was a portrait miniaturist, and a member of the R
He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley.
He studied painting at the Munich Academy starting in 1875. Collier was from a talented and successful family.
His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a Member of Parliament. His father, Robert, was created the first Lord Monkswell.
He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. John Collier's elder brother, the second Lord Monkswell, was Under-Secretary of State for War and Chairman of the London County Council. In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, President of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. Collier married two of Huxley's daughters and was on terms of intimate friendship with his son, the writer Leonard Huxley. Collier's first wife, in 1879, was Marian Huxley. She was a painter who studied, like her husband, at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. After the birth of their only child, a daughter, she suffered severe post-natal depression and was taken to Paris for treatment where, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in 1887. Collier's daughter by his first marriage, Joyce, was a portrait miniaturist, and a member of the R
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