John Maler Collier
(27 January 1850 - 11 April 1934), called 'Jack' by his family and friends, 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 where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 (Register: 3145) at the age of 25. Collier was from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a Member of Parliament. His father (who was a Member of Parliament, Attorney General and, for many years, a full-time judge of the Privy Council) 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. Collier's first wife, Marian Huxley, 1883In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, sometime President of the Royal Society. 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 (Mady) 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. In 1889 Collier married Mady's younger sister Ethel Huxley. Until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway. Collier's daughter by his first marriage, Joyce, was a portrait miniaturist, and a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. By his second wife he had a daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier KCMG, who was the British Ambassador to Norway 1941-51.
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John Maler Collier The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson oil painting


The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
1881(1881) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 214 cm (84.3 in). Width: 183.5 cm (72.2 in). cjr
Painting ID::  89053 		John Maler Collier
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
1881(1881) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 214 cm (84.3 in). Width: 183.5 cm (72.2 in). cjr
   
   
     
John Maler Collier The sleeping beauty oil painting


The sleeping beauty
1921(1921) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 91 x 112 cm (35.8 x 44.1 in) cjr
Painting ID::  89170 		John Maler Collier
The sleeping beauty
1921(1921) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 91 x 112 cm (35.8 x 44.1 in) cjr
   
   
     
John Maler Collier Queen Guinevre's Maying oil painting


Queen Guinevre's Maying
1900(1900) Medium oil on canvas cjr
Painting ID::  92858 		John Maler Collier
Queen Guinevre's Maying
1900(1900) Medium oil on canvas cjr
   
   
     
John Maler Collier Priestess of Delphi oil painting


Priestess of Delphi
1891(1891) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 160 X 80 cm (63 X 31.5 in) cjr
Painting ID::  93115 		John Maler Collier
Priestess of Delphi
1891(1891) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 160 X 80 cm (63 X 31.5 in) cjr
   
   
     
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     John Maler Collier
     (27 January 1850 - 11 April 1934), called 'Jack' by his family and friends, 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 where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 (Register: 3145) at the age of 25. Collier was from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a Member of Parliament. His father (who was a Member of Parliament, Attorney General and, for many years, a full-time judge of the Privy Council) 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. Collier's first wife, Marian Huxley, 1883In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, sometime President of the Royal Society. 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 (Mady) 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. In 1889 Collier married Mady's younger sister Ethel Huxley. Until the Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway. Collier's daughter by his first marriage, Joyce, was a portrait miniaturist, and a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. By his second wife he had a daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier KCMG, who was the British Ambassador to Norway 1941-51.

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