In the history of art, Edward Poynter is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Edward Poynter as British artist (1836–1919).
Edward Poynter was born at Paris in 1836. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Heatherley School of Fine Art and Ipswich School.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, university teacher and art historian.
His best-known work is Andromeda. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Knight Bachelor.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Edward Poynter died in 1919, aged 83. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Knight Bachelor
- Notable work: Andromeda
