John Elliott
Epic Symbolist murals
John Elliott was an artist, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Carolus-Duran. In 1878, he went to Rome to study with José Villegas Cordero and there met his future wife, Maud Howe, Pulitzer-prize-winning American writer and the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Elliott is known for his epic Symbolist murals including working alongside his friend and colleague John Singer Sargent to provide murals for the Boston Public library, as well as creating a mural in the National Museum (now the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.)
Relationship Network
Master student
- José Villegas Cordero Master
Friend
Artworks by this artist
- Julia Ward Howe
- Victor Chapman ca. 1917-1925
- Raoul Lufbery ca. 1917-1925
- Richard McCall Elliot, Jr. ca. 1917-1925
- Paul Pavelka ca. 1917-1925
- Georges Thenault ca. 1917-1925
- Quentin Roosevelt ca. 1917-1925
- William Thaw ca. 1917-1925
- Raynal Cawthorne Bolling ca. 1917-1925
- William Halsall Cheney ca. 1917-1925
- Richard Norton ca. 1917-1925
- Richard Stevens Conover ca. 1917-1925
- Norman Prince ca. 1917-1925
- Elliot Christopher Cowdin ca. 1917-1925
- Edmond Charles Clinton Genet ca. 1917-1925
- Hamilton Coolidge ca. 1917-1925
- Bert Hall ca. 1917-1925
- James R. McConnell ca. 1917-1925
- Alan Seeger ca. 1917-1925
- Kiffin Rockwell ca. 1917-1925