James Collinson
James Collinson (born May 9, 1825 in Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , † January 24, 1881 in Camberwell , London ) was an English painter .
Collinson was born the son of a bookseller and printer. He went to London in 1846 and was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts the following year with the painting The Charity Boy's Debut . Dante Gabriel Rossetti liked this picture so much that he proposed it to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood , of which he was one of the founding members in 1848.
In 1848 he became engaged to Christina Rossetti and, because of her, converted from Catholicism , which he had recently turned to, to the Church of England . In 1850 he returned to his Catholic faith, which led to the end of his relationship with Rossetti. In the same year he resigned from the brotherhood, believing that the Pre-Raphaelites would harm Christianity. In 1853 he gave up the art for a short while, began studying at Jesuit Stonyhurst College and planning to become a priest. In 1855, however, he gave up and started painting again.
Over time, Collinson exhibited regularly at exhibitions by the Royal Society of British Artists . Occasionally he made trips to France and stayed there for a somewhat longer stay in the late 1870s. In 1881 he died of pneumonia in London .
Web links
- Biography at Artmagick (English)
- James Collinson at the Tate Gallery
- James Collinson's "The Child Jesus" on the Victorianweb
Individual evidence
- ↑ Éva Péteri: Victorian Approaches to Religion as Reflected in the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites . Budapest 2003, Akadémiai Kiadó, ISBN 963-05-7947-2 , p. 43.
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| SURNAME | Collinson, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mansfield , Nottinghamshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1881 |
| Place of death | Camberwell , London |