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- March 27, 1832, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Died:
- April 13, 1910, London, England (aged 78)
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Sir William Quiller Orchardson
British artist
Sir William Quiller Orchardson (born March 27, 1832, Edinburgh, Scotlandādied April 13, 1910, London, England) was a British portraitist and painter of historical and domestic genre scenes.
After studying at the Trusteesā Academy in Edinburgh from 1850 to 1857, Orchardson began to do illustrations, chiefly for the periodical Good Words, after the Pre-Raphaelite manner. After exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy, he went to London in 1862, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1863. He was elected academician in 1877 and knighted in 1907. Two of his more famous paintings are Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon (1880) and Her Motherās Voice (1888).
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