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Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, KB PRA (
20 March 1836 –
26 July 1919) was a
British painter, designer, draughtsman and art administrator.
The son of Ambrose Poynter, an
architect, he was born in Paris. He was educated at
Ipswich School and
Brighton College before studying in
London, in
Rome (where he became a great admirer of
Michelangelo) and with
Charles Gleyre in
Paris (where he met
James McNeill Whistler). He became best known for his large historical paintings such as
Israel in Egypt (1867, his first great success),
Visit of the Queen of Sheba (1871–75) and
King Solomon (1890).
Poynter held a number of official posts: he was the first
Slade Professor from 1871 to 1875, was Principal of the
National Art Training School from 1875 to 1881, was Director of the
National Gallery from 1894 to 1904 (overseeing the opening of the
Tate Gallery), and became a
Royal Academician in 1876. On the death of
Sir John Millais in 1896, Poynter was elected President of the
Royal Academy from
1896, and received a
knighthood. He was made a
baronet in
1902.
In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty
Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev G B MacDonald of Wolverhampton, and they'd three children. Her sister Georgiana married
Edward Burne-Jones, the famous artist; her sister Alice was the mother of the poet and author
Rudyard Kipling; and her sister Louisa was the mother of three-times-
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Stanley Baldwin
His old school,
Brighton College held an exhibition of Poynter's paintings and drawings entitled 'Life at Arms Length' in its Burstow Gallery in November-December 1995.
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