Bowler, Henry Alexander 1824 - 1903There is 1 product.

English Pre-Raphaelite Painter
(born in London, 30 Nov 1824; died in London, 6 Aug 1903). English painter and teacher. He studied at J. M. Leigh’s school and the Government School of Design, Somerset House, London. He specialized in landscape and genre subjects, exhibiting at the Royal Academy intermittently between 1847 and 1871. In 1855 he exhibited what is now his best-known painting, The Doubt: Can These Dry Bones Live? (London, Tate), which shows a woman leaning on the headstone of a grave. The subject-matter of the painting, with its clean-cut forms and bright, translucent colours, strongly suggests the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, although Bowler did not know any of them personally. Many of his 16 exhibited works in oil and watercolour were landscapes. Luccombe Chine, Isle of Wight (1860; London, V&A) is a watercolour that harks back to the sharply focused, botanical approach to landscape painting favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites during the late 1840s and early 1850s.