Ernest Waterlow
Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, RA ROI (24 May 1850 – 25 October 1919) was a British painter.
Biography
[edit]Waterlow was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape painting.[1] Sir Sydney Waterlow was his uncle.
He was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the Royal Academy in 1890, and academician in 1903.[1]
Waterlow obtained a passport signed by Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary in 1871 to travel to the continent including Warsaw[2]
He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and watercolour, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, Galway Gossips, is in the Tate collection.[1]
He was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours,[3] receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.[4]
Family
[edit]Waterlow's sister Constance was married to the neurologist David Ferrier; Waterlow illustrated several of Ferrier's scientific papers.[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 381.
- ↑ "Auction Search | Lay's Auctioneers". www.davidlay.co.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- ↑ "The Coronation Honours". The Times. No. 36804. London. 26 June 1902. p. 5. Retrieved 23 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "No. 27494". The London Gazette. 11 November 1902. p. 7165.
- ↑
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Waterlow, Sir Ernest Albert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 960. - ↑ Akkermans, Rebecca (30 June 1016). "David Ferrier". The Lancet, Volume 15, Issue 7, Page 666. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- C. H. Collins Baker, Sir E. A. Waterlow, R.A., P.R.W.S. (London: Art Journal Office, 1906).
