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William Collins RA (1787 - 1847)
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English landscape and genre painter born in London. His father, William Collins (d. 1812) was a picture dealer and writer, originally form Ireland. He wrote a memoir of the painter George Morland (1763–1804). Collins’s mother (d. 1833) was from Edinburgh.
Collins entered the Royal Academy Schools on 15 January 1807 aged 19 and won the Royal Academy Schools Silver Medal in 1809. He exhibited at the Royal Academy annual exhibition from 1807 to 1846.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy on 7 November 1814 and a Royal Academician on 10 February 1820. He served as the Academy’s librarian between 1840-1842.
In 1822 Collins married Harriet Geddes (1790–1868), a cousin of the painter Andrew Geddes ARA (1783–1844). They had two sons, William Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), the novelist, and Charles Allston Collins (1828–1873), the Pre-Raphaelite painter. Wilkie Collins wrote a life of his father, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., RA (2 vols., 1848).
Collins died at his hom
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William Collins (poet)
18th-century English poet
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The sole portrait of William Collins, aged 14 | |
| Born | (1721-12-25)25 December 1721 Chichester, Sussex, England |
| Died | 12 June 1759(1759-06-12) (aged 37) Chichester, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
William Collins (25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759) was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. His lyrical odes mark a progression from the Augustan poetry of Alexander Pope's generation and towards the imaginative ideal of the Romantic era.
Biography
Born in Chichester, Sussex, the son of a hatmaker and former mayor of the town, Collins was educated at The Prebendal School,[1]Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] While still at the university, he published the Persian Eclogues, which he had begun at school. After graduating in 1743 he was undecided about his future. Failing to obtain a university fellowship, being judged by a military uncle as 'too indolent even for t
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WILKIE COLLINS'S FAMILY
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WILLIAM COLLINS, R.A. (1788-1847)
William John Thomas Collins was Wilkie Collins's father, a celebrated portrait and landscape painter. He was born on 18 September 1788 at Great Titchfield Street, London, the elder son of William and Margaret Collins. He showed early artistic promise and was for a time an informal pupil of his father's friend George Morland. In 1807 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools and in the same year had two landscape paintings hung in the Summer Exhibition. In 1809 William Collins won the Academy silver medal for drawing in the life school and was just beginning to earn a modest income from painting when his father died bankrupt in 1812. Over the next ten years William Collins steadily consolidated his artistic position. In 1814, the year in which he met his future wife, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and in 1818 sold a landscape painting to the Prince R
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