Walter William Ouless

Walter William Ouless
Born 21 Sep. 1848
St. Helier
Died 1933
Field Portrait painting

Walter William Ouless, RA (1848–1933) was a British portrait painter from Jersey. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1877 and a full member (RA) in 1881.

Ouless was "one of the best-known portraitists of the latter years of the nineteenth century",[1] regarded as an "impressive exponent of character".[2]

He was a volunteer in the Artists Rifles.

Exhibitions

Ouless exhibited in the British Section of the Chicago Exhibition of 1893,[3] and of the Paris Exhibition of 1900.[4]

References

  1. ^ Edmund von Mach, The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1908), p. 84.
  2. ^ Frank F. Frederick, "Painting of the Nineteenth Century in England, Scotland and America", Fine Arts Journal 34:7 (1916), p. 326.
  3. ^ Royal Commission for the Chicago Exhibition, Official Catalogue of the British Section‎, 1893.
  4. ^ B. Kendell, "British Painters and Sculptors at the Paris Exhibition", The Artist (American Edition), Vol. 28, No. 247 (August 1900), p. 152.

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