Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Charles Nicholas Cochin the Younger with a sailing ship and

with a sailing ship and a rowing boat in a rough sea at its base

King from 1574

Gassendi wears black robes with a white collar and black skull cap

King Edward V is wearing a robe knotted loosely around his shoulders

Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Charles Nicholas Cochin the Younger with a sailing ship andEdward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in England, and the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with historical designs. He became a Royal Academician in 1872, and became the Academy's professor and lecturer on painting in 1875. Armitage was a great collector of insects. From Men of Mark: a gallery of