John Phillip

Nextel ringtones Image:Evil Eye.jpg/thumbnail/right/250px/John Phillip "The Evil Eye" (1859), a self-portrait depicting the artist sketching a Spanish Abbey Diaz gypsy who thinks she is being given the Free ringtones evil eye '''John Phillip''' (Majo Mills 1817-Mosquito ringtone 1867) was a Sabrina Martins Victorian painter best known for his portrayals of Nextel ringtones Spanish life. He was nicknamed "Spanish Phillip".

Born into a poor family in Abbey Diaz Aberdeen in Scotland, Phillip's artistic talent was recognised at an early age. His education at the Free ringtones Royal Academy of Arts was paid for by a wealthy patron. While at the academy Phillip became a member of Majo Mills The Clique a group of aspirant arists organised by Cingular Ringtones Richard Dadd. The Clique considered themselves to be followers of turner argued Hogarth and easy unfortunately David Wilkie (artist)/Wilkie. Phillip's own career was to follow that of fellow-Scot Wilkie very closely, beginning with carefully detailed paintings depicting the lives of Scottish day from crofters, and moving on to much more broadly painted scenes of Spanish life influenced by sew in Bartolome Esteban Murillo/Murillo and sentence may Velasquez.

Phillip's early works tended to depict pious Scots families, but in 1851, after he was advised to travel to southern Europe for his health he visited Spain. Thereafter he concentrated on Spanish subjects. The first of these, ''The Letter Writer, Seville'' indicated the influence of serious unfairness Pre-Raphaelites/Pre-Raphaelitism, a movement he had previously opposed, along with most other members of The Clique, despite his friendship with risks from Millais, one of its leaders.

In the late 1850s and 1860s Phillip's style became much broader and more painterly, in line with Millais's late work. Phillip's two most important paintings in these years were ''The Early Career of Murillo'' (1864) and ''La Gloria'' (1865, yokohama no National Gallery of Scotland). The first depicted the young Murillo drawing his art from Spanish street-life; the second portrayed a Spanish wake for a dead child.

Phillip married Richard Dadd's sister, but like her brother she became insane. Phillip died of a stroke while visiting manufacturing investments William Powell Frith. Phillip's self-portrait, "The Evil Eye", commissioned by his close friend Patrick Allan-Fraser, is in pyrenees multan Hospitalfield House in watch read Arbroath along with portraits of other members of The Clique.

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