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    Henry Ryland
    1856-1924

    Henry Ryland was born in 1856 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire in Great Britain. He painted primarily figures and worked in the manner of Neo-Classicism and the Pre-Raphaelites.

    Ryland studied at the Royal College of Art in Great Britain, l' Académie Julian under Boulanger and Lefebvre and also under Ferdinand Cormon and Benjamin-Constant while in Paris. His watercolors are comparable with the work of Rosetti, Alma Tadema and J.W. Godward in subject and romantic stylization.

    The artist also worked as a decorative illustrator. In the 1880s and 1890s he created illustrations for English Illustrated Magazine and designed the cover for The Quiver magazine.

    Ryland exhibited at the Grosvenor Ga...

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