See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• WILLIAM ETTY (1787-1849)

ETTY (1787-1849)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, on the loth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1787 . His See also:

• FATHER

father had been in See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life a See also:

• MILLER, HUGH (1802–1856)
• MILLER, JOAQUIN (CINCINNATUS HEINE) (1841- )
• MILLER, JOE (JosEPH or JosIAS( (1684-1738)
• MILLER, SAMUEL FREEMAN (1816-1890)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1782-1849)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1795-1861)
• MILLER, WILLIAM (1796–1882)
• MILLER, WILLIAM HALLOWES (18o1–188o)

miller, but had finally established himself in the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of York as a See also:

• BAKER, HENRY (1698-1774)
• BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907)
• BAKER, SIR RICHARD (1568-1644/5)
• BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE (1821-1893)
• BAKER, THOMAS (1656-1740)
• BAKER, VALENTINE [BAKER PASHA] (1827-1887)

baker of spice-See also:

• BREAD

bread . After. some scanty instruction of the most elementary See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, the future painter, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of eleven and a See also:

• HALF

half, See also:

• LEFT

left the paternal roof, and was See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound apprentice in the See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing-See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of the See also:

• HULL
• HULL (in O.Eng. hulu, from helan, to cover, cf. Ger. Hiille, covering)
• HULL (officially KINGSTON-UPON-HULL)
• HULL, ISAAC (1775-1843)

Hull Packet . Amid many trials and discouragements he completed his See also:

• TERM

term of seven years' See also:

• SERVITUDE (Lat. servitus, from service, to serve)

servitude, and having in that See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period come by practice, at first surreptitious, though afterwards allowed by his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master " in lawful See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours," to know his own See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, he removed to See also:

• LONDON

London . The kindness of an See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother and a wealthy See also:

• UNCLE

uncle, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• ETTY, WILLIAM (1787-1849)

Etty, himself an artist, stood him in See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• STEAD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1849– )

stead . He commenced his training by copying without instruction from nature, See also:

• MODELS

models, prints, &c.—his first See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy, as he himself says, being a See also:

• PLASTER

plaster-See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast See also:

• SHOP

shop in See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

Cock See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane, Smithfield . Here he made a copy from an See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient cast of See also:

• CUPID (Cupido, " desire ")

Cupid and See also:

• PSYCHE (//vxi7)

Psyche, which was shown to See also:

• OPIE, AMELIA (1769-1853)
• OPIE, JOHN (1761-1807)

Opie, and led to his being enrolled in 1807 as student of the Academy, whose See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools were at that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time conducted in See also:

• SOMERSET, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SOMERSET, EDMUND BEAUFORT, DUKE OF (c. 1404–1455)
• SOMERSET, EDWARD SEYMOUR, DUKE OF (c. 1506–1552)
• SOMERSET, LORD ROBERT EDWARD HENRY (1776-1842)
• SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e. 1590-1645)

Somerset See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House . Among his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow scholars at this period of his career were some who in after years See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose to See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence in their See also:

• ART

art, such as See also:

• WILKIE, SIR DAVID (1785–1841)

Wilkie, See also:

• HAYDON, BENJAMIN ROBERT (1786-1846)

Haydon, See also:

• COLLINS, ANTHONY (1676-1729)
• COLLINS, JOHN CHURTON (1848-1908)
• COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1721-1759)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM (1787–1847)
• COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE (1824–1889)

Collins, See also:

• CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
• CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
• CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
• CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
• CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)

Constable . His uncle generously paid the necessary See also:

• FEE

fee of one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred guineas, and in the summer of 1807 he was admitted to be a private See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence, who was at the very See also:

• ACME (Gr. 6.Kµii, point)

acme of his fame . Etty himself always looked on this See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege as one of incalculable value, and till his latest See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day regarded Lawrence as one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief ornaments of British art . For some years after he quitted Sir Thomas's studio, even as See also:

• LATE

late as 1816, the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of his See also:

• PRECEPTOR

preceptor was traceable in the mannerism of his See also:

• WORKS

works . Though he had by this time made See also:

• GREAT

great progress in his art, his career was still one of almost continual failure, hardly cheered by even a passing See also:

• RAY (Lat. raia)
• RAY (or WRAY, as he wrote his name till 1670), JOHN (1628-1705)

ray of success .

In 1811, after repeated rejections, he had the See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of seeing his " See also:

• TELEMACHUS

Telemachus rescuing See also:

• ANTIOPE

Antiope " on the walls of the Academy . It was badly hung, however, and attracted little See also:

• NOTICE

notice . For the next five years he persevered with quiet and See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy in overcoming the disadvantages of his early training with yearly growing success, and he was even beginning to establish something like a name when in 1816 he resolved to improve his knowledge of art by a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy . After an See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of three months, however, he was compelled to return See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home without having penetrated farther See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south than See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence . Struggles and vexations still continued to harass him; but he See also:

• BORE

bore up against them with patient endurance and force of will . In 1820 his " See also:

• CORAL

Coral-finders," exhibited at the Royal Academy, attracted much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention, and its success was more than equalled by that of " See also:

• CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra's arrival in See also:

• CILICIA

Cilicia," shown in the following See also:

• YEAR

year . In 1822 he again set out on a tour to Italy, taking See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on his way, and astonishing his fellow-students at the Louvre by the rapidity and fidelity with which he copied from the old masters in that See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

gallery . On arriving at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome he immediately resumed his studies of the old masters, and elicited many expressions of wonder from his See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian fellow-artists for the same qualities which had gained the admiration of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French . Though Etty was duly impressed by the See also:

• GRAND

grand chefs-d'oeuvre of See also:

• RAPHAEL (Hebrew smm, " God heals ")

Raphael and See also:

• MICHELANGELO (MICHELAGNIOLO BUONARROTI) (1475-1564)

Michelangelo at Rome, he was not sorry to See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange that city for See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice, which he always regarded as the true home of art in, Italy . His own See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style as a colourist held much more of the Venetian than of any other Italian school, and he admired his prototypes with a zeal and exclusiveness that sometimes bordered on extravagance . Early in 1824 he returned home to find that honours See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long unjustly withheld were awaiting him . In that year he was made an See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1828 he was promoted to the full dignity of an Academician .

In the See also:

• INTERVAL

interval between these See also:

• DATES

dates he had produced the " Combat (Woman interceding for the Vanquished)," and the first of the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of three pictures on the subject of See also:

• JUDITH, THE BOOK OF

Judith, both of which ultimately came into the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the Scottish Academy . Etty's career was from this time one of slow but uninterrupted success . In 1830 he again crossed the channel with the view to another art tour through the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent; but he was overtaken in Paris by the insurrection of the Three Days, and was so much shocked by the See also:

• SIGHTS

sights he was compelled to See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness in that time that he returned home with all convenient See also:

• SPEED, JOHN (1552–1629)

speed . During the next ten years of his life the zeal and unabated assiduity of his studies were not at all diminished . He was a constant attendant at the Academy Life School, where he used to See also:

• WORK

work regularly along with the students, notwithstanding the remonstrances of some of his fellow-Academicians, who thought the practice undignified . The course of his studies was only interrupted by occasional visits to his native city, and to See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, where he was welcomed with the utmost See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm, and feted with the most gratifying heartiness by his brother-artists at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh . On the occasion of one of these visits he gave the See also:

• FINISHING

finishing touches to his trio of Judiths . In 1840, and again in 1841, Etty undertook a See also:

• PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

pilgrimage to the See also:

• NETHERLANDS

Netherlands, to seek and examine for himself the masterpiecesof See also:

• RUBENS, PETER PAUL (1577-164o)

Rubens in the churches and public galleries there . Two years , later he once more visited See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France with a view to See also:

• COLLECTING

collecting materials for what he called " his last epic," his famous picture of " See also:

• JOAN

Joan of Arc." This subject, which would have tasked to the full even his great powers in the See also:

• PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime and vigour of manhood, proved almost too serious an undertaking for him in his old age . It exhibits, at least, amid great excellences, undeniable proofs of decay on the See also:

• PART

part of the painter; yet it brought a higher See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price than any of his earlier and more perfect works, 2500 . In 1848, after completing this work, he retired to York, having realized a comfortable See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence . One wish alone remained for him now to gratify; he desired to see a " gathering " of his pictures .

With much difficulty and exertion he was enabled to assemble the great See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of them from various parts of the British Islands; and so numerous were they that the walls of the large See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall he engaged in London for their See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition were nearly covered . This took See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the summer of 1849i on the 13th of * See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November of that same year he died . He received the honours of a public funeral in his native city . Etty holds a secure place among See also:

• ENGLISH

English artists . His See also:

• DRAWING

drawing was frequently incorrect, but in feeling and skill as a colourist he has few equals . His most conspicuous defects as a painter were the result of insufficient See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general culture and narrowness of sympathy . See Etty's autobiography, published in the Art See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal for 1849, and the Life of William Etty, R.A., by Gilchrist (2 vols., 1855) .