Edwin austin abbey paintings

Abbey studied from under the Philadelphia portrait and landscape painter Isaac L. In he attended evening classes in drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schussele.

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In the s he became well known for his elegant, and highly detailed watercolours and line drawings, which appeared as wood-engravings in a number of periodicals. He was particularly known for his illustrations to Shakespeare. His work showed a debt to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and to British illustration. In he moved to Britain.

He became particularly close to the landscape painter and illustrator Alfred Parsons with whom he shared studios, exhibited, travelled and collaborated on several projects. From to , he was one of the central figures in the artists colony at Broadway, along with Parsons, Frank Millet and John Singer Sargent. From Abbey became increasingly involved with mural schemes and oil painting.

His preference lay with large, richly coloured paintings frequently of a Shakespearean or troubadour theme that reflected Abbeys interest in the stage.

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A regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, he was elected an A. Abbey may well have had a hand in this , , Abbey was good friends with Whistler and was often to be found with his wife amongst the visitors at rue du Bac in Paris. Beatrice Whistler, who liked the couple, apparently wanted Whistler to make a drawing or lithograph of Abbey for his wife The subject was the Quest for the Holy Grail.

In Whistler was encouraged by Abbey, Sargent and Howells to submit designs for the decoration of a panel for the library's Bates Hall.