The Founders' Fund Collection

 

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Image source: Roe, Frederic Gordon. The Nude from Cranach to Etty and Beyond. England: F. Lewis Limited, 1944.

William Etty

Nationality: British

Training: Royal Academy, London; studied under Sir Thomas Lawrence

Peers: Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence

Group: Romanticism; watercolour; 18th century; 19th century

Provenance: purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi and Co. by Charles Scott and Henry Stone on behalf of the Founders in 1931

Subject: classical; historical; nude; female form