About Ernest Waterlow
Lived 1850 – 1919 (aged 69). Ernest Waterlow was a British painter and landscape painter.
Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, (24 May 185025 October 1919) was a British painter.
Biography Waterlow was born in London, and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape painting. Sir Sydney Waterlow was his uncle.
He was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the Royal Academy in 1890, and academician in 1903.
He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and watercolour, handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, Galway Gossips, is in the Tate collection. receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.
Waterlow died in Hampstead in 1919.
Family Waterlow's sister Constance was married to the neurologist David Ferrier; Waterlow illustrated several of Ferrier's scientific papers.
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English painter (1850-1919)
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Ernest Waterlow was born on 24 May 1850 in London.
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Ernest Waterlow died on 25 October 1919 in London.
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Ernest Waterlow was a painter and landscape painter.
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