DOI Heft:
No. 373 (April 1924)
DOI Artikel:Martineau, Helen: A Pre-Raphaelite painter
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0225
A PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTER
" kit's writing lesson ”
BY R. B. MARTINEAU
(The property of Miss Mudie)
A PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTER. 0
ROBERT B. MARTINEAU belonged
to the school of pre-Raphaelite painters
who flourished about half a century ago.
His pictures, although they attracted
considerable attention during his lifetime,
are very little known to the public of to-
day. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Martineau was born in London in 1826.
He was the son of Philip Martineau,
Taxing Master to the High Court of
Chancery, and of Elizabeth his wife,
daughter of Robert Batty, M.D., and her-
self an accomplished water-colour artist.
Martineau was educated at University
College, London, and being intended for
the law hewas articled to afirm of solicitors,
but it was soon found that he preferred
art, a fact which became inconveniently
apparent when the drawing up of marriage
settlements was interrupted by humorous
drawings of the bride and bridegroom and
imaginary scenes of the wedding ceremony!
In 1848 Martineau entered Cary's
drawing school and afterwards went to the
Royal Academy School, where he won a
silver medal for a drawing from the antique.
Afterwards he became the pupil and friend
of Holman Hunt and his work was much
influenced by this artist. 000
In a charming article called “ Little Hol-
land House '' (which I came across in an
old "Cornhill” of 1899) the brilliant gather-
ings which met together there in the late
'fifties and 'sixties of last century are
described—Watts, Leighton, Millais, Prin-
sep, Tennyson, Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Sar-
toris, Adelaide Procter, Lady Taylor,
Edward Burne-Jones, Lady Dufferin were
among the many frequenters of that beau-
tiful house and garden. Of Martineau it
speaks as “ there being no more familiar
figure than his at Little Holland House—
generally following in the wake of Holman
Hunt. I believe at the time they shared a
studio and were almost inseparable friends.
In 1862 Robert Martineau exhibited his
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" kit's writing lesson ”
BY R. B. MARTINEAU
(The property of Miss Mudie)
A PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTER. 0
ROBERT B. MARTINEAU belonged
to the school of pre-Raphaelite painters
who flourished about half a century ago.
His pictures, although they attracted
considerable attention during his lifetime,
are very little known to the public of to-
day. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Martineau was born in London in 1826.
He was the son of Philip Martineau,
Taxing Master to the High Court of
Chancery, and of Elizabeth his wife,
daughter of Robert Batty, M.D., and her-
self an accomplished water-colour artist.
Martineau was educated at University
College, London, and being intended for
the law hewas articled to afirm of solicitors,
but it was soon found that he preferred
art, a fact which became inconveniently
apparent when the drawing up of marriage
settlements was interrupted by humorous
drawings of the bride and bridegroom and
imaginary scenes of the wedding ceremony!
In 1848 Martineau entered Cary's
drawing school and afterwards went to the
Royal Academy School, where he won a
silver medal for a drawing from the antique.
Afterwards he became the pupil and friend
of Holman Hunt and his work was much
influenced by this artist. 000
In a charming article called “ Little Hol-
land House '' (which I came across in an
old "Cornhill” of 1899) the brilliant gather-
ings which met together there in the late
'fifties and 'sixties of last century are
described—Watts, Leighton, Millais, Prin-
sep, Tennyson, Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Sar-
toris, Adelaide Procter, Lady Taylor,
Edward Burne-Jones, Lady Dufferin were
among the many frequenters of that beau-
tiful house and garden. Of Martineau it
speaks as “ there being no more familiar
figure than his at Little Holland House—
generally following in the wake of Holman
Hunt. I believe at the time they shared a
studio and were almost inseparable friends.
In 1862 Robert Martineau exhibited his
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