Edward Poynter
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet Kt PRA (born March 20, 1836 in Paris , France , † July 26, 1919 in London) was an English painter, designer and draftsman, director of the National Gallery from 1894 to 1905 and President of the Royal Academy of Arts (PRA) from 1896 to 1918.
Career
Edward John Poynter, son of Ambrose Poynter, an architect , was born on March 20, 1836 in Paris, France. He attended Ipswich School and Brighton College before studying in London , Rome (where he became a great admirer of Michelangelo ) and finally with Charles Gleyre in Paris (where he met James McNeill Whistler ). He became famous for his great historical paintings, such as Israel in Egypt (1867, his first great success), Visit of the Queen of Sheba (1871–75) and King Solomon (1890).
Poynter held a number of public offices: he was the first professor at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1871 and 1875, principal of the National Art Training School between 1875 and 1881, director of the National Gallery between 1894 and 1904 (he oversaw the opening the Tate Gallery ) and was inducted into the Royal Academy of Arts in 1876 . After the death of Sir John Millais in 1896, Poynter was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts and received the knighthood . He was raised to the hereditary baronet of Kensington in the County of London on August 2, 1902 .
Poynter created the first comprehensive catalog for the National Gallery. In coordination with the Board of Directors, Poynter made significant purchases for the National Gallery: The Vision of St Eustace by Antonio Pisanello , Agony in the Garden by Andrea Mantegna , Portrait of a Man by Titian and the Rembrandt portraits by Jacob Trip and his wife, as well as works by Lorenzo Monaco , Francisco de Zurbarán and Francisco Goya .
His students at the Slade School of Fine Art included John Collier (1850-1934), Lexden Lewis Pocock (1850-1919) and Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929).
At the turn of the century, the number of his new paintings decreased, as his main focus was on running the Royal Academy. He saw the extinction of classicism and thus his own artistic standards and those of his contemporaries were pushed into the background. He ignored the new development, which he didn't like. His last duty as a PRA was in 1917 to attend the funeral of John William Waterhouse .
He died on July 26, 1919 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
family
In 1866 Poynter married one of the well-known Macdonald sisters, Agnes Macdonald, daughter of Reverend GB Macdonald of Wolverhampton . They had three children together, from whom his son Ambrose Macdonald Poynter (1867-1923) inherited his baroness. Agnes Macdonald had three other sisters: Georgiana married Edward Burne-Jones , a famous artist; Alice was the mother of the writer Rudyard Kipling , and Louisa was the mother of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , who served three terms.
Honors
1917 Sir Edward Poynter was in New York as an honorary member ( Honorary NA ) of the National Academy of Design selected.
His old school, Brighton College, held an exhibition of Poynters paintings and drawings entitled "Life at Arms Length" in his Burstow Gallery between November and December 1995.
Fonts
- Edward J. Poynter: Ten Lectures on Art , Chapman & Hall, London 1879.
- Harry John Wilmot-Buxton and Sir Edward John Poynter: German, Flemish and Dutch painting . By (beard.) Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, London 1881
- Edward J. Poynter, Percy R. Head: Classic and Italian painting , Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London 1890
- Edward J. Poynter: The National Gallery , Vol. I, Publisher: Cassell and Company, London 1899
- Edward J. Poynter: The National Gallery: Foreign schools , Vol. II Publisher: Cassell and Company, London 1899
- Edward J. Poynter: The National Gallery. Reproduction of Sixty Masterpieces , Cassell and Company, London 1909
literature
- Death of Sir E. Poynter: A Great Victorian. In:The Timers, July 28, 1919.
- Malcolm Bell: Drawings of Sir EJ Poynter , George Newness Ltd., London 1905.
Web links
- Edward Poynter in The Victorian Web
- Poynter, Edward John, Sir in: Dictionary of Art Historians
- Edward John Poynter on the Art Renewal Center ARC website
- Poynter in the National Portrait Gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir Edward Poynter, Bt., PRA in the database of the Royal Academy of Arts , English, accessed on May 24, 2013.
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "P" / Poynter, Sir Edward John Honorary 1917 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 12, 2015)
Presidents of the Royal Academy of Arts ( PRA ) (with term of office)
Joshua Reynolds (1768-1792) | Benjamin West (1792-1805) | James Wyatt (1805-1806) | Benjamin West (1806-1820) | Thomas Lawrence (1820-1830) | Martin Archer Shee (1830-1850) | Charles Lock Eastlake the Elder (1850–1865) | Francis Grant (1866-1878) | Frederic Leighton (1878-1896) | John Everett Millais (–Aug 1896) | Edward Poynter (1896-1918) | Aston Webb (1919-1924) | Frank Dicksee (1924–1928) | William Llewellyn (1928-1938) | Edwin Lutyens (1938-1944) | Alfred Munnings (1944–1949) | Gerald Festus Kelly (1949–1954) | Albert Richardson (1954-1956) | Charles Wheeler (1956-1966) | Walter Thomas Monnington (1966–1976) | Hugh Casson (1976-1984) | Roger de Gray (1984-1993) | Philip Dowson (1993-1999) | Phillip King (1999-2004) | Nicholas Grimshaw (2004-2011) | Christopher Le Brun (since 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poynter, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Poynter, Sir Edward John, 1st Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1919 |
| Place of death | London |