Lady Godiva

Artist John Collier’s style offers beautiful, eloquent expressions of Pre-Raphaelite painting achieved through meticulously descriptive detail, rich color and fine, nearly invisible brushstrokes. His formal artist’s education took place in London under the tutelage of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter; later he moved to Paris to study with Jean-Paul Laurens. A true perfectionist, Collier (1850 -1934) was committed to the utmost accuracy in his paintings of historical and mythological scenarios, Collier also painted numerous portraits of kings, noblemen, actors and socialites, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He was not only a painter but also an illustrator, and a published author of three art books.