William Quiller Orchardson, artist and Royal Academician Great Altar of Pergamon Balloting for the coal strike

Balloting for the coal strike

British gunners busily engaged in putting over a curtain barrage

or Munchausen Improved

John Kemble

William Quiller Orchardson, artist and Royal Academician Great Altar of Pergamon Balloting for the coal strikeWilliam Quiller Orchardson, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Born in Scotland, Orchardson (1832 1910) was a subject and portrait painter who moved to London in 1862. He is best known for his depictions of upper class society in the 18th century and Regency periods. He became a Royal Academician in 1877. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army,