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Augustus Leopold Egg. Cet article est extrait de l'ouvrage Larousse « Dictionnaire de la peinture ». Peintre britannique (Londres 1816 – Alger 1863). Fils d'un armurier renommé, il étudia à la Royal Academy à partir de 1835 et se fit connaître du public en 1857-58. Fondateur de la Clique, il fut A. R. A. en 1849 et R. A. en 1861.
Augustus Egg’s early paintings. Egg successfully tried his hands at painting comic scenes from Shakespeare, Byron, and Walter Scott. Although his style bore a resemblance to that of Charles Leslie, they exhibited vivid storytelling abilities, such as the scenes from Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV’ and Sir Walter Scott’s,’The Monastery’.
Photograph showing full length portrait of Augustus Egg standing, facing three-quarters to the right. He looks to the front. Egg is depicted holding a walking stick in his right hand. He stands in front of a table and a plinth, the latter draped with material. Egg was a Victorian artist and exhibition organiser, best known for his triptych Past and Present (1858, Tate Britain) which depicts ...
29 de mar. de 2023 · morality (57) transport: water (8,015) boat, rowing (688) ‘Past and Present, No. 3‘, Augustus Leopold Egg, 1858 on display at Tate Britain.
Augustus Leopold Egg was born in London on 2nd May 1816. He attended Henry Sass Drawing School in preparation for entering the Royal Academy. His painting A Spanish Girl was accepted by the Academy in 1838. At about this time he formed The Clique, a sketching club, with William Powell Frith and Richard Dadd.
As a symbolic parallel, perhaps, Egg reinforces the contrast by showing the children in the same room as the corpse of a woman--most likely their mother. Like two important influences for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, The Arnolfini Portrait and Hogarth's Industry and Idleness , Egg's painting makes room for both profound questions of morality, religious truth and everyday human relations.
