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The Sirens and Ulysses Print by William Etty

The Sirens and Ulysses

Venus and Her Satellites Print by William Etty

Venus and Her Satellites

A Bacchante Print by William Etty

A Bacchante

Pluto carrying off Proserpine Print by William Etty

Pluto carrying off Proserpine

The Three Graces Print by William Etty

The Three Graces

Reclining Female Nude in a Landscape Print by William Etty

Reclining Female Nude in a Landscape

Ariadne Print by William Etty

Ariadne

Ariadne 2 Print by William Etty

Ariadne

A study of a standing female nude Print by William Etty

A study of a standing female nude

Kneeling nude Print by William Etty

Kneeling nude

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball Print by William Etty

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball

The Actress Rachel Felix Print by William Etty

The Actress Rachel Felix

Study for Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm Print by William Etty

Study for Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm

Venus relieving Cupid of his bow Print by William Etty

Venus relieving Cupid of his bow

Venus and Cupid Descending Print by William Etty

Venus and Cupid Descending

Sleeping female nude Print by William Etty

Sleeping female nude

Cupid and Psyche Print by William Etty

Cupid and Psyche

Cupid And Psyche 2 Print by William Etty

Cupid And Psyche

A Bacchanalian Revel Print by William Etty

A Bacchanalian Revel

Study of a Female Nude Print by William Etty

Study of a Female Nude

Reclining female nude by a waterfall Print by William Etty

Reclining female nude by a waterfall

Nymph Angling Print by William Etty

Nymph Angling

A young woman reclining on a fur rug Print by William Etty

A young woman reclining on a fur rug

Nude bather by a stream Print by William Etty

Nude bather by a stream

Two female bathers Print by William Etty

Two female bathers

Allegory Print by William Etty

Allegory

Benaiah Print by William Etty

Benaiah

Study of a Black Boy Print by William Etty

Study of a Black Boy

The Bridge of Sighs Print by William Etty

The Bridge of Sighs

William Etty

Standing Female Nude from Behind

William Etty

Reclining, Seated Nude

William Etty

Female Nude Disrobing

William Etty

Reclining Female Nude

William Etty

Crouching Female Nude from Behind

William Etty

BathingFemale Nude

William Etty

Nude

William Etty

The storm

Standing Female Nude Print by William Etty

Standing Female Nude

Bacchante Print by Attributed to William Etty

Bacchante

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The Sirens and Ulysses Print by William Etty

The Sirens and Ulysses

William Etty (10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of nudes. William Etty was born on 10 March 1787 at 20, Feasegate, York, to Matthew and Esther Etty. He was educated at Bedern in York, and at Mr Hall's Academy in Pocklington. In 1798 and in accordance with the wishes of his father, Etty served seven years of apprenticeship to a printer in Hull. He was, however, enabled to pursue his studies in painting through the generosity of his uncle, William Etty, who in 1806 invited him to London. In 1807 he entered the Royal Academy School as a probationer, studying under Henry Fuseli, and he also studied privately for a year under Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose influence for some time dominated his art. In 1808 he entered the Royal Academy as a student.

Additional training

He copied a great deal from the old masters in the National Gallery and was a constant student in the Life School of the Academy, even after he had become an Academician. He paid a brief visit to Paris and Florence in 1816, and in 1822 he took a longer journey to Italy, spending most of his time in Venice. From his studies of the Venetian masters he acquired that excellence in colour for which his works are chiefly known.[5]


Life and work

In 1822 Etty set off for Italy, travelling through France and Switzerland. He studied in Venice and In 1823 he was made Honorary Academician of the Venetian Academy.On his return to England in 1824, his "Pandora Crowned by the Seasons" was much applauded, and in 1828 he was made a member of the Royal Academy. Some of his early work, particularly his depiction of the female nude was regarded as controversial but Etty became an influential and respected British artist. In 1842, The Government School of Design opened in York with his help.

"He was controversial during his lifetime in the early and middle 19th century, and still is...Etty's bumboat is what his friend John Constable called a particularly gruesome painting, Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm, in which naked women clamber in a pyramid to catch bubbles in a golden-prowed boat."[6]

Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm

Etty painted very unequally. His work at its best possesses great charm of colour, especially in the glowing, but thoroughly realistic, flesh tints. The composition is good, but his drawing is sometimes faulty, and his work usually lacks life and originality. He often endeavoured to inculcate moral lessons by his pictures. He himself considered his best works to be "The Combat," the three "Judith" pictures, "Beniah, David's Chief Captain" (all in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, "Ulysses and the Sirens" (Manchester Gallery), and the three pictures of Joan of Arc. He is also represented in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and in English provincial museums; the Metropolitan Museum, New York City owns his "The Three Graces," considered by many his masterpiece. "The Combat" was a large painting, over 10 feet in height and 13 feet in breadth. No buyer would purchase it until Etty's fellow painter John Martin acquired it for £300. Hung in Martin's studio, it was seen there by Lord Darnley, who then commissioned Etty to paint his "The Judgement of Paris."[7] A statue of Etty, erected in 1911, stands in front of the York Art Gallery in his home town. Yet "He remains a neglected and underrated artist, one of the few nineteenth-century painters to paint classical subjects successfully."[8] Etty had only one English follower in the practice of painting the nude, in William Edward Frost.


Links with York

In addition to his art, Etty is known for his involvement in a campaign to prevent the demolition of Clifford's Tower and York city walls in 1825.[9]
There is a life-size sculpture of Etty outside the York Art Gallery. Carved in Portland stone, it was sculpted by the local sculptor George Milburn, and unveiled to the public on 20 February 1911. The centenary of this event in 2011 was commemorated by the major retrospective (June 2011 – January 2012) entitled "William Etty: Art and Controversy", with a book of the same name.
Etty is also represented in one of the four roundels above York Art Gallery's entrance. The other roundels contain other famous York artists: John Carr (1723–1807, architect), John Camidge (1734–1803, musician), and John Flaxman (1787–1849, painter).
Todd's bookshop at No. 35 Stonegate, owned by John Todd, was one of York's most prestigious bookshops. Etty described how he "would stand entranced and sketch" the prints displayed in the shop's windows.
No. 20 Feasegate is Etty's birthplace.
Etty's Coney Street house, now next to City Screen, is where Etty lived in retirement from June 1848 until his death in November 1849.
His grave is in St. Olave's Cemetery, Marygate,[10] and inside the church, on the left as you enter, is a stained glass window in memory of Etty.

References

William Etty: Art and Controversy, Philip Wilson Publishers

Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Etty, London, 1855. ISBN 1-4286-4033-9.
William Cosmo Monkhouse, "Etty," Dictionary of National Biography, London, 1889. ISBN 1-4021-7066-1.
Leonard Robinson, Jr., Wiliiam Etty: The Life and Art, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2007; pp. 19–30.
Robinson, pp. 34–8 and ff.
Robinson, pp. 76–80, 95–112.
"Pleasures of the Flesh". The Independent, Viewspaper section. 5 September 2011. pp. 14–15.
Lionel Lambourne, Victorian Painting, London, Phaidon Press, 1999; p. 281.
Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1999; p. 22.
Burnage, Sarah; Hallett, Mark; Turner, Laura, eds. (2011). William Etty: Art & Controversy. York Museums Trust. ISBN 978-0-905807-25-6.
William Etty at FindaAGrave.com, includes photo of grave. Accessed via internet Feb 20, 2015

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