Walter Howell Deverell (1827 – 2 February 1854 1854) was a United States-born British artist, closely associated with thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Deverell was born inCharlottesville, Virginia, into an English family who moved back to Britain when Walter was only two years old. He studied art at theRoyal Academy Schools, where he metDante Gabriel Rossetti. He and Rossetti shared a studio in 1851 at 17 Red Lion Square. It consisted of three rooms on the first floor, and the studio room, looking north, had its window extended up to the ceiling to admit more light.[1] The Pre-Raphaelites had been founded in 1848, and under Rossetti's influence Deverell's work began to show the influence of the movement, while still retaining features more characteristic of earliergenre painters likeCharles Robert Leslie.
It was Deverell who "discovered"Elizabeth Siddal, the Pre-Raphaelites' most important early model. However, despite his attraction to her,[citation needed] she later married Rossetti.Henry Treffry Dunn was recommended for the position of Rossetti's assistant by Deverell.[2] After the resignation ofJames Collinson from thePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Rossetti proposed that Deverell should replace him, but no decision was ever made.
Deverell completed very few important works, exhibiting only four paintings at theRoyal Academy before his early death fromBright's disease at the age of twenty-seven. He lived inKew, now part of London, where one of his paintings,A Pet, was done in his house.[3]
Walter Deverell died on 2 February 1854 fromBright’s Disease, in the company of John Everett Millais.[4]
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