Louis Wain is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Louis Wain as English artist (1860-1939).
Louis Wain was born at Clerkenwell in 1860. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at West London School of Art.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter, illustrator and animator.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
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.
Louis Wain died in 1939, aged 79. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
