William Lionel Wyllie Original Signed Etching

William Lionel Wyllie Original Signed Etching - Excellent condition

Frame and mounting board in poor condition as per pictures (Best to be re-framed)

Size of Etching: length: 25cm; Width 20cm

William Lionel Wyllie W.L.Wyllie [1951-1931] Biography

William Lionel Wyllie was an artist in oil, watercolour, etching and aquatint of marine and tidal Thames subjects. Mr. W.L.Wyllie, R.A., R.E. was born in London in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, the son of William Morison Wyllie and brother of Charles Wyllie.

Both his father and his half-brother, Lionel Smythe, were painters, so it was only natural that the boy should take to art at an early age. All the family drew and painted as a matter of course.

W.L.Wyllie first studied at the Heatherlys in Newman Street, London in 1865, where he spent most of his time making drawings from antiques. Later W.L.Wyllie entered the Royal Academy School 1866-69, winning the Turner Medal 1869, he studied under Leighton, Millais, Armytage, Wells, Landseer, and many other painters of Victorian times.

He studied art at the Heatherleys in 1865, and at the Royal Academy Schools between 1866-69, winning the Turner Medal 1869. William Lionel Wyllie was the father of Harold Wyllie and lived in Portsmouth for many years from 1907 and died in London on 6th April 1931. Acknowledged as one of the leading marine artists at the turn of the century. Marine painter to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Ryde. Work in the National Maritime Museum.