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William Etty, self-portrait based on an October 1844 photograph by Hill & Adamson





• William Etty RA (10 March 1787 – 13 November 1849) was an English artist
best known for his history paintings containing nude figures. He was the first
significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Born in York, he left school
at the age of 12 to become an apprentice printer in Hull. He completed his
apprenticeship seven years later and moved to London, where in 1807 he
joined the Royal Academy Schools. There he studied under Thomas
Lawrence and trained by copying works by other artists. Etty earned respect
at the Royal Academy of Arts for his ability to paint realistic flesh tones, but
had little commercial or critical success in his first few years in London.
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• Etty's Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia, painted in 1821, featured numerous
nudes and was exhibited to great acclaim. Its success prompted several
further depictions of historical scenes with nudes. All but one of the works he
exhibited at the Royal Academy in the 1820s contained at least one nude
figure, and he acquired a reputation for indecency. Despite this, he was
commercially successful and critically acclaimed, and in 1828 was elected a
Royal Academician, at the time the highest honour available to an artist.
Although he was one of the most respected artists in the country he
continued to study at life classes throughout his life, a practice considered
inappropriate by his fellow artists. In the 1830s Etty began to branch out into
the more lucrative but less respected field of portraiture, and later became
the first English painter to paint significant still lifes. He continued to paint
both male and female nudes, which caused severe criticism and
condemnation from some elements of the press.








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 Credit: Maurycy Gottlieb
Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, an 1878 painting by
Maurycy Gottlieb depicting Ashkenazi Jews praying on Yom Kippur, the
Jewish day of atonement. The artist has painted himself (to the right of the
seated rabbi, looking outwards) among the people of his hometown of
Drohobych. (Full article...)
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• 9 June 1904 – The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hans

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age of 73
 • 20 June 1703 – The Love Suicides at Sonezaki by Chikamatsu
Monzaemon, often considered the greatest Japanese dramatist,
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• 24 June 1924 – Efua Sutherland, a foundational figure in modern
Ghanaian drama, is born in the Cape Coast region of Ghana
• 29 June 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured), one of the
most prominent poets of the Victorian era, dies in Florence at the age of
55
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