Paul falconer poole biography of rory

Though self-taught his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy and dramatic power gained for him a high position among British artists. He exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being "The Well," a scene in Naples.

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There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his "Farewell, Farewell" in , which was followed by the "Emigrant's Departure," "Hermann and Dorothea" and "By the Waters of Babylon. After his exhibition of the "Surrender of Syon House" he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in , and was made an academician in He died in Poole's subjects divide themselves into two orders - one idyllic, the other dramatic.

Of the former his "May Day" is a typical example. Of both styles there were excellent examples to be seen in the small collection of his works shown at Burlington House in the Winter Exhibition of Among his early dramatic pictures was "Solomon Eagle exhorting the People to Repentance during the Plague of ," painted in To this class belongs also the "Messenger announcing to Job the Irruption of the Sabeans and the Slaughter of the Servants" exhibited in , and "Robert, Duke of Normandy and Arletta" Finer examples of his more mature power in this direction are to be found in his "Prodigal Son," painted in ; the "Escape of Glaucus and Ione with the blind girl Nydia from Pompeii" ; and "Cunstaunce sent adrift by the Constable of Alla, King of Northumberland," painted in More peaceful than these are the "Song of Troubadours" painted in and the "Goths in Italy" , the latter an important historical work of great power and beauty.