Augustus Leopold Egg

{"Id":128,"Name":"Augustus Leopold Egg","Biography":"As a young man Egg was a member of the artistic group \u0027The Clique,\u0027 whose other members included Richard Dadd and W P Frith. He initially painted historical pictures. Egg was one of the few Royal Academicians who was sympathetic to, and was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and under their influence turned to painting pictures of modern life. Personally he was an easy-going benign individual.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThroughout his life Egg suffered from poor health, and he died aged only forty seven. He was a highly competent and perceptive artist, and in the \u0027Travelling Companions,\u0027 painted in the last year of his life he produced one of the most significant artistic images of his day.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVictorian Art in Britan\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":36}