EDWARD JOHN GREGORY (1850-19o9)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V12,
Page 577
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:EDWARD See also:JOHN See also:GREGORY (1850-19o9)
, See also:British painter, See also:born at See also:Southampton, began See also:work at the See also:age of fifteen in the engineer's See also:drawing 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:Peninsular and See also:Oriental See also:Company
.
Afterwards he studied at See also:South See also:Kensington, and about 1871 entered on a successful career as an illustrator and as an admirable painter in oil and See also:water See also:colour
.
He was elected See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy in 1883, academician in 1898, and See also:president of the Royal See also:Institute of Painters in Water See also:Colours in 1898
.
His work is distinguished by remarkable technical qualities, by exceptional firmness and decision of draughtsmanship and by unusual certainty of handling
.
His " Marooned," a water colour, is in the See also:National See also:Gallery of British See also:Art
.
Many of his pictures were shown at See also:Burlington See also:House at the See also:winter See also:exhibition of 1909—1910 after his See also:death in See also:June 1909
.
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