William Gale (painter)

William Gale
William Gale, Self portrait
Born	1823 London, England
Died	1909
Nationality	English
Education	Art Academy of Mr Sass, Bloomsbury, London; Royal Academy, London
Known for	Painter
Movement	Orientalist; pre-Raphaelite school
Website	William Gale: Victorian Artist

William Gale (1823–1909) was a British painter of the pre-Raphaelite school.

Life and career[]

Gale was born in London. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy 1844–93, but was never elected a member. He exhibited regularly at the British Institution and at the Royal Society of British Artists.^[1]

In 1851, he married and travelled to Italy for his honeymoon. Like many of his contemporary artists, he travelled the Middle East in 1862 and again 1867. He was a prolific artist; his output included sentimental, biblical and mythological subjects, and portraits and Orientalist pictures. There are examples of his work in the Tate Gallery, in the , and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.^[2]

His painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem features in the sleeve notes of the 2011 album 90 Bisodol (Crimond) by the band Half Man Half Biscuit.^{[citation needed]}

Selected works[]

Miriam painting by William Gale

• Young Celadon and his Amelia, 1845
• Chaucer's Dream, 1850
• Cydippe, 1851
• The Captured Runaway, 1856 (John Scott Collection)
• Nazareth, (wood engraving), 1856
• Eastern Woman, 1856
• Eyes to the Blind, 1861
• After the Spanish, c. 1861
• Blind Bartemeus, 1865
• Nearing Home, 1866
• The Holy Family, 1866
• Interior, Algiers, 1867
• The Favourite, date unknown

See also[]

• List of Orientalist artists
• List of artistic works with Orientalist influences
• Orientalism

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