Edward Armitage. Edward Armitage was an English Victorian-era painter whose work focused on historical, classical and biblical subjects.
Armitage was born in London to a family of wealthy Yorkshire industrialists, the eldest of seven sons of James Armitage and Anne Elizabeth Armitage née Rhodes, of Farnley Hall, just south of Leeds, Yorkshire. His great-grandfather James bought Farnley Hall from Sir Thomas Danby in 1799 and in 1844 four Armitage brothers, including his father James, founded the Farnley Ironworks, utilising the coal, iron and fireclay on their estate.
His brother Thomas Rhodes Armitage founded the Royal National Institute of the Blind. Armitage was the uncle of Robert Armitage, the great-uncle of Robert Selby Armitage, and first cousin twice removed of Edward Leathley Armitage.
Armitage's art training was undertaken in Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in October 1837. He studied under the history painter, Paul Delaroche, who at that time was at the height of his fame.
Armitage was one of four students selected to assist Delaroche with the fresco Hémicycle in the amphitheatre of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, when he reputedly modelled for the head of Masaccio. Whilst still in Paris, he exhibited Prometheus Bound in 1842, which a contemporary critic described as 'well drawn but brutally energetic'. In 1843 Armitage returned to London, where he entered competitions
Armitage was born in London to a family of wealthy Yorkshire industrialists, the eldest of seven sons of James Armitage and Anne Elizabeth Armitage née Rhodes, of Farnley Hall, just south of Leeds, Yorkshire. His great-grandfather James bought Farnley Hall from Sir Thomas Danby in 1799 and in 1844 four Armitage brothers, including his father James, founded the Farnley Ironworks, utilising the coal, iron and fireclay on their estate.
His brother Thomas Rhodes Armitage founded the Royal National Institute of the Blind. Armitage was the uncle of Robert Armitage, the great-uncle of Robert Selby Armitage, and first cousin twice removed of Edward Leathley Armitage.
Armitage's art training was undertaken in Paris, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in October 1837. He studied under the history painter, Paul Delaroche, who at that time was at the height of his fame.
Armitage was one of four students selected to assist Delaroche with the fresco Hémicycle in the amphitheatre of the Palais des Beaux-Arts, when he reputedly modelled for the head of Masaccio. Whilst still in Paris, he exhibited Prometheus Bound in 1842, which a contemporary critic described as 'well drawn but brutally energetic'. In 1843 Armitage returned to London, where he entered competitions
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