Briton riviere sympathy
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From a photograph by A. E. Fardelle. Source: Fenn 142.
Briton Riviere was best known as an animal painter, but he also painted some striking genre and history paintings, often including animals. Born in London in 1840, he came from an artistic family of Huguenot descent: his grandfather was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, as was his father, William Riviere, who went on to become a drawing-master at Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire. Young Briton, who had already started sketching animals at London Zoo, and in 1851 exhibited oil paintings of kittens at the British Institution, was educated at Cheltenham from 1851 to 1859. In 1857, when still at school, he had three paintings accepted by the Royal Academy ("Death of Mr Briton Riviere").
At this point his father moved to Oxford, where he established art as an area of study within the university. Having moved there with his family in 1859, Riviere went on to take his BA and MA degrees at St Mary Hall, Oxford. His connection with St Mary's continued and stood him in good stead: he would be granted the honorary degree of DC
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Briton Rivière RA (1840 - 1920)
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Luke Fildes, Holland House, Kingsgate, Broadstairs, to Spielmann
10 Nov 1896
Item SP/3/10
H.S. Marks, 17 Hamilton Terrace, St. John's Wood, to Spielmann
28 Jan 1892
Item SP/3/1
Shaw Memorial minutes
1913-1915
Item SHA/1
William Riviere, Porturet House, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, to George Richmond
21 May 1858
Item GRI/3/264
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Briton Rivière
English painter
Briton Rivière RA | |
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1881 portrait by Philip Hermogenes Calderon | |
| Born | (1840-08-14)14 August 1840 London, England |
| Died | 20 April 1920(1920-04-20) (aged 79) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Paintings of animals |
Briton RivièreRA (14 August 1840 – 20 April 1920)[1] was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings.
Biography
Briton's father, William Rivière (1806–1876), was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and then an art teacher at the University of Oxford. Briton was educated at Cheltenham College and Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867. For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father.[2] His paternal uncle Henry Parsons Rivière (1811–1888) was also a noted watercolourist, exhibiting works at the Royal Watercolour Society, London and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
His first pictures appeared at the British In
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