William Lionel Wyllie
William Lionel Wyllie RA (born July 5, 1851 in London , † April 6, 1931 ibid) was an English marine painter .
Life
Wyllie was the elder son of the painter William Morison Wyllie and brother of Charles William Wyllie, who also became a painter. His half-brother was Lionel Smythe , who was also a respected painter. In 1865 he completed the required basic training at the Heatherley School and studied from 1866-9 at the Royal Academy in London under such well-known greats as Frederic Leighton , John Everett Millais , Edwin Landseer and other painters of the Victorian era. In 1869 he was awarded the Turner Medal for the best landscape painting "Dawn after a Storm".
In 1899 he was admitted to the Royal Academy and exhibited his works The Phantom Ship and Davy Jones' Locker . He created numerous watercolors , oil paintings , copper engravings and etchings . During the First World War he served as a war correspondent . His 1917 painting Iron Duke Opening Fire , which is now owned by Nick Jellicoe , dates from this period .
Works
- his most important work is the panorama picture The Battle of Trafalgar with a size of 13.5 × 3.6 meters, on which he worked for 20 years.
- The Phantom Ship depicts the ghost ship from the novel of the same name by Frederick Marryat , the template for the opera Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner .
- Davy Jones' Locker alludes to a legend about an undead pirate.
Etching by Veere
The Track of Lusitania .
The Teutonic leaves Liverpool
The opening of Tower Bridge , 1895
HMS Calypso , 1897
Battle of the Nile 1899
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Publications
- JMW Turner . Publisher: George Bell & Sons, London 1905
- ; with his wife
- Beautiful Britain. London to the Nore . Painted by WL Wyllie and described by Marion Amy Willie. Publisher: AC Black, London 1905
- Marion Amy Willie: Norway and its fjords . With 16 illustrations by WL Wyllie. Publisher: Menthuen & Co., London 1907
- ; as war correspondent
- William L. Wyllie, MF Wren: Sea Fights of the Great War: Naval Incidents During the First Five Months . Publisher: Cassell & Co., London 1918
- William L. Wyllie, MF Wren: Sea fights of the great war (microform): naval incidents during the first nine months Publisher: Cassell & Co., London 1918
- WL Willie, Charles Owen, WD Kirkpatrick: More sea fights of the great war, including the battle of Jutland . Publisher: Cassell and Company, London 1919
Individual evidence
- ^ PM History, November 2006, pp. 60f.
- ^ Lionel Smythe RA
- ^ Heatherley's School ( September 9, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth to Wyllie
- Images Wyllies ( Memento from April 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- William Lionel Wyllie - The Royal Museums, Greenwich
- Willie at the Tate Gallery
- “The Pool of London” at Christie's auction
- Pictures by WL Wyllie in auctions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1931 |
| Place of death | London |