Three Puttis as The Graces by E.T.Parris

“Three Putti, as The Graces”

Oil on canvas dated 1836 by E T Parris

Edmund Thomas Parris was born in London in 1793, dying there in 1873. He was a painter and designer, specialising in history paintings, portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. After serving an apprenticeship as a jeweller and learning enamel painting, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1816. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year and continued to do so until 1874. He also exhibited at the British Institute and the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street. His work ‘Joseph of Arimathea Converting the Jews’ won a prize at the Westminster Hall Competition, 1843; he also painted large pictures of the coronation of Queen Victoria and the funeral of the Duke of Wellington. From 1853 to 1856, he repainted the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. For many years, he was a fashionable painter of portraits, including one of Queen Adelaide and he was appointed Historical Painter to her in 1832.

His work is represented in the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Doncaster Art Gallery.

His work is illustrated in the Dictionary of Victorian Painters.

Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionary of Artists; A Dictionary of Artists 1760-1893, Graves, 1901; Dictionary of Victorian Painters; Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain to 1920.

Dimensions: 760 x 520