Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, PRWS

Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA, PRWS

1850 - 1919

born in 1850, London; died in 1919, London.

English painter of landscapes and animal scenes, in oils and watercolour.

Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow first studied in Heidelberg and Lausanne, and entered Carey's School of Art in 1867, moving onto the Royal Aacademy Schools, London, in 1872. Waterlow won the Turner gold medal for landscape painting in 1873 and was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1880, becoming a member in 1894 and then its president in 1897 (PRWS). Waterlow also became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1890, and a full academician in 1903 (RA). He was knighted in 1902. Waterlow travelled widely to France, Germany and Switzerland, and focussed much of his painting to the south of England, in particular the counties of Cornwall, Dorset and Suffolk. Landscapes range from quintessential English rural and river scenes, to more dramatic scenes of snow-capped mountains in central Europe. The Tate collection holds an example of his work entitled Galway Gossips, exhibited 1887 (N01596) and is considered typical of Waterlow's landscapes.