William Riviere

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William Riviere (1806–1876) sometimes Rivière, was an English painter and art educator.

Life[]

Born in the parish of St Marylebone, London, on 22 October 1806, was son of Daniel Valentine Riviere, a drawing-master; and brother of (1811–1888), another painter, and Robert Riviere. After receiving instruction from his father, he became a student at the Royal Academy. He was noted as a draughtsman, and as a student of Michelangelo and the Roman and Florentine artists. He exhibited first in 1826, when he sent to the Royal Academy a portrait and a scene from Shakespeare's King John.[1]

Later Riviere concentrated on teaching, and in 1849 he was appointed drawing-master at Cheltenham College, where he created a drawing-school. After ten years, he went to Oxford, where he promoted his view that the study of art should form an essential part of higher education.[1]

Riviere died suddenly, at 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford, on 21 August 1876. A miniature of him when a young man, by Charles William Pegler, went to his son Briton Riviere, R.A., one of four children with his wife from 1830 Ann Jarvis, a still-life painter.[1][2]

Works[]

During the 1820s Riviere exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution a number of portraits, domestic subjects, and landscapes. In 1843 he sent to the Westminster Hall competition a cartoon, the subject of which was a "Council of Ancient Britons"; and in 1844 a fresco, An Act of Mercy; and a painting in oils, Council of Ancient Britons. In 1845 he sent to Westminster Hall a sketch, Prince Henry, afterwards Henry V, acknowledging the authority of Chief Justice Gascoigne, with a portion of the subject in fresco; and in 1847 an oil-painting, The Acts of Mercy.[1]

Riviere was also a landscape-painter, both in oil and in watercolours, and a sculptor. His last exhibited work was a portrait of Philip Wynter, president of St John's College, Oxford, which was at the Royal Academy in 1860.[1]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Riviere, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ Sperling, Della Clason. "Riviere, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23695. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Riviere, William". Dictionary of National Biography. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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