"In the Tepidarium"
"Athenais"
"When the heart is young"
The painter John William Godward, (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922, Wilton Grove, Wimbledon, England
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Godward was an English painter from the end of the Victorian Neo - Classicist, and therefore, a follower in theory of Frederic Leighton. He is more closely allied stylistically, however, to Sir Lawrence Alma - Tadema, with whom he shared a penchant for the rendering of Classical architecture, in particular, static landscape features constructed from marble. His style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern art.
He was born to Sarah Eboral and John Godward (an investment clerk at the Law Life Assurance Society, London). He was the eldest of five children and was named after his father John and grandfather William. He was christened at St. Mary's Church in Battersea on 17 October 1861. The overbearing attitude of his parents made him reclusive and shy later in adulthood.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887. When he moved to Italy with one of his models in 1912, his family broke off all contact with him and even cut his image from family pictures. Godward returned to England in 1921, suiceded in 1922 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, west London.
Godward quickly established a reputation for his paintings of young women in a classical setting and his ability to convey with sensitivity and technical mastery the feel of contrasting textures, flesh, marble, fur and fabrics. Godward's penchant for creating works of art set in the classical period probably came from the time period in which he was born. The last full-scale classical revival in western painting bloomed in England in the 1860s and flowered there for the next three decades.
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