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Herbert James Draper
Herbert James Draper (1863 - 1920) was an English oil
painting artist in the Victorian era. He studied art at the Royal
Academy in London and undertook several educational trips to Rome
and Paris between 1888 and 1892. In the 1890s he worked also as an
illustrator.
1894 was the beginning of Draper's most productive period. He
focused mainly on mythological themes from ancient Greece. His oil
painting "The Lament of Icarus" from 1898 won the gold medal at the
Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. Though Draper was neither
a member nor an associate of the Royal Academy he took part in the
annual expositions from 1897 on. During his lifetime Draper was
quite famous and a well known portrait oil painting artist.
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