OBITUARY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 88, 15 April 1910, Page 7

OBITUARY.

SIR WILLIAM ORCHARDSON. Dj Telegraph.— l're*s AnomUou.— Copyright. lUcceived April 15, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 14th Apiil. The death is announced of Sir \\ Uliam QrcharcUon, the avtibt. Sir William Quiller Orchardson, Pi. A., D.C.L., who wat knighted in 1907, was bnpn in Edinburgh in 1835, wa* educated in Scotland, and fir.it exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1863 he uune to London and exhibited in the- Royal At-adem/ and hag ever »iiu9 retained a wide* popularity as a painter of portrait* and "subject pictuieH." In 1868 he was elected A.R.A., and It. A. in 1877. Li year* to come his pictures of the- social life of bin tim» will probably be valued, like those of the Into Mr. P. Frith, for their fidelity not only to the outward ve»twe but the opirit of the time, and they ore in>t*rcstint? also an marking the change in both rc«pect* since the earlier nrtist was in hit prime. Th«y are leu* literaJi>ti<-, ■nd, in harmony with the contemporary spirit, seek to penrtrato deeper into thereality of thinK*. Apart from portrait comniWiona, he wm a fairly prolific urltrt. A few of his principal pictures ure "The Challenge" (1863), "Chriktophtr Sly" (1866), "Napoleon oh Hoard iho Bcllerophon" (1880). "Vn .Mariano dt> Couvenance" (1884), and its Htxjuel (1886). "Tbo Salon of Madame It era inier" (1886), "The Rift Within the Lute" (1887), "The. Young Duke" (1887), "Blossoms Fair" and "In the Gloaming" (1001). Hi* elde* ton, Cliu.l.-h Q. Urdiardsou, H.8.A., wa* burn in 1873, it Principal of the St. John* Wood Ait School, tad, Ilka hi* father, paint* oortreiti and subject pictures chiefly*