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John Simmons BIOGRAPHY
1823 - 1876. Known for: Miniature portrait and fairyland painting based on literature.
A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative... Read full biography
A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative subject matter, but also from a desire to escape the mundane, everyday Victorian life. The works of... Read full biography
A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative subject matter, but also from a desire to escape the mundane, everyday Victorian life. The works of Shakespeare provided the richest source of fairy subject-matter, one which had been explored earlier in the paintings of Puck and Titania by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Fuseli for Boydell's 1789... Read full biography
A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative subject matter, but also from a desire to escape the mundane, everyday Victorian life. The works of Shakespeare provided the richest source of fairy subject-matter, one which had been explored earlier in the paintings of Puck and Titania by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Fuseli for Boydell's 1789 Shakespeare Gallery. While the subject matter came from literature, the often eroticised aesthetic of fairy painting emerged from the appearance of Romantic ballet in London in the 1840s. Almost all of Simmons' fairy paintings take Titania as their... Read full biography
A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative subject matter, but also from a desire to escape the mundane, everyday Victorian life. The works of Shakespeare provided the richest source of fairy subject-matter, one which had been explored earlier in the paintings of Puck and Titania by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Fuseli for Boydell's 1789 Shakespeare Gallery. While the subject matter came from literature, the often eroticised aesthetic of fairy painting emerged from the appearance of Romantic ballet in London in the 1840s. Almost all of Simmons' fairy paintings take Titania as their subject, treating her as 'a paragon of Victorian maidenhood' (J. Maas cited in J. Martineau (ed.)... Read full biography
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A Bristol, England portrait painter and miniaturist, Simmons turned to fairy painting in the 1860s as it became an increasingly popular genre, springing both from the constant search for narrative subject matter, but also from a desire to escape the mundane, everyday Victorian life.
The works of Shakespeare provided the richest source of fairy subject-matter, one which had been explored earlier in the paintings of Puck and Titania by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Henry Fuseli for Boydell's 1789 Shakespeare Gallery. While the subject matter came from literature, the often eroticised aesthetic of fairy painting emerged from the appearance of Romantic ballet in London in the 1840s.
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