3-082-689 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Our Leading Academicians, painted by themselves: Mr. William Quiller Orchardson, R.A., 1895. 'Mr. W. Q. Orchardson was born in Edinburgh in 1835; educated at the Trustees' Academy at Edinburgh, where he painted portraits until 1863, when he came to London and exhibited his first picture, "An Old English Song." Painted numerous historical pictures and scenes from Shakspere. Later he took to more domestic subjects, in which the dramatic interest was strongly predominant. Elected A.R.A. 1868, and R.A. 1877'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.