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William Lionel Wyllie

William Lionel Wyllie (1851 - 1931) was active/lived in Australia, United Kingdom.  William Wyllie is known for Land-and seascape, ship painting.

WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (1851-1931) was a prolific English artist and painter of maritime themes in oils, watercolors, etchings, and aquatints, his artistry respected to the point of his being acknowledged as "Britain's premier marine artist of the later Victorian and early 20th century."  Wyllie primarily painted seascapes and coastal landscapes, in which his treatment of light and atmosphere was the main feature, bringing to the paintings a feeling of peace and tranquility.  His work portrayed a wide range of maritime subjects, from destroyers and battleships to fishing boats and sailing dinghies.  It was his etchings and watercolors showing working life on the Thames and the Medway that first brought him widespread popularity.

He was born on July 5th, 1851 at 67 Albany Street, Camden, London, the eldest son of William Morrison Wyllie, a prosperous minor-genre painter who decided, partly for health reasons, that the family would spend part of the year in France (a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10777 characters.]  Artist bio

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