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The Hon. John Collier

1850–1934

Mrs Huxley c.1927–8
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Biography

John Maler Collier (; 27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

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Artworks

  • The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson

    The Hon. John Collier
    exhibited 1881
  • Mrs Huxley

    The Hon. John Collier
    c.1927–8

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