John William Waterhouse’s works are displayed at many leading museums and art galleries, with the Royal Academy of Art staging a major retrospective exhibition of his work in 2009. Waterhouses earlier works were shown in the Dudley Gallery, as well as the Society of British Artists, and John William Waterhouses painting of Sleep with its half-brother, Death, was shown in a Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1874. Born in Rome, Italy, to English parents, John William Waterhouse moved back to England and studied at the Royal Academy of Art, where he found initial success with annual exhibitions on such distinguished platforms as the Royal Academy summer exhibition and the Society of British Artists.   

Waterhouse was born in the city of Rome to English painter William and Isabella Waterhouse in 1849, in the same year members of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt, were making their first stirrings on the London art scene. John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for his Academic Style paintings and for his work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. John William Waterhouse (born between January and April 1849, died 10 February 1917) was an English painter known mostly for his Pre-Raphaelite style paintings such as his artwork, Hylas And The Nymphs.

John William Waterhouse, known professionally as Ninos, (baptized April 6, 1849?, Rome, Italy–died February 10, 1917, London, England), English Victorian-era painter known primarily for his John William Waterhouse Large-scale paintings of classical mythological subjects. John William Waterhouse painted this composition in 1916, one of his best known works, depicting Miranda as described in one of William Shakespeares most common scenes. ‘Echo And Narcissus’, above, is a waterhouse art print called ‘Echo And Narcissus‘, it is another example of how Waterhouse used characters in his paintings to strike a spellbinding spell of charm and atmosphere into each piece. 

Popular amongst pre-Raphaelites, Alfred, Lord Tennysons poem of the same name from 1832 was translated onto canvas in what is arguably one of Waterhouses most popular and enduring paintings. Fans of Waterhouses pre-Raphaelite paintings may appreciate about 30 to 40 major works from Waterhouse’s career such as Boreas, or The Lady of Shalott, and they might also like those of other such artists, such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, as well as Romanticist artists JMW Turner and John Constable. Undoubtedly, the content used by Waterhouse is quite similar to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, but he also chose to incorporate elements of Classicism along with that.

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