William Lindsay Windus
Illustration — Self portrait (c.1840–c.1845) • Illustration — Too Late (1858) William Lindsay Windus (1822–1907) was an English painter, part of a group of Liverpool painters who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style.
William Lindsay Windus
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Teachers
- William Daniels
- Known for
- Too Late
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Self portrait (c.1840–c.1845) • Illustration — Too Late (1858) William Lindsay Windus (1822–1907) was an English painter, part of a group of Liverpool painters who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style.
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Training under William Daniels is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are Too Late. Work by William Lindsay Windus is recorded in the collections of Tate, National Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and Williamson Art Gallery and Museum.
He was born in Liverpool, England, was initially taught art by William Daniels (1813–1880), then went on to study at the Liverpool Academy. On a visit to London in 1850 he became converted to the Pre-Raphaelite style. He exhibited his new style of painting with the work Burd Helen at the Royal Academy, London in 1856. The picture caught the eye of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Ruskin which helped establish Windus as a respected artist. Windus's 1844 painting The Black Boy is in the collection of National Museums Liverpool and is displayed at the International Slavery Museum.
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1822
William Lindsay Windus born at Liverpool.
1907
William Lindsay Windus died at London.
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