ウィリアム・モー・エグリ

1826-1916 English

ヴィクトリア朝風俗画と衣装

William Maw Egley was an English artist of the Victorian era. The son of the miniaturist William Egley, he studied under his father. His early works were illustrations of literary subjects typical of the period, such as Prospero and Miranda from The Tempest. These were similar to the work of The Clique. William Powell Frith, one of The Clique, hired Egley to add backgrounds to his own work. Egley soon developed a style influenced by Frith, including domestic and childhood subjects. Most of his paintings were humorous or "feelgood" genre scenes of urban and rural life, depicting such subjects as harvest festivals and contemporary fashions. His best-known painting, Omnibus Life in London (Tate Gallery), is a comic scene of people squashed together in the busy, cramped public transport of the era. イーグリーは衣装の細部に常に大きな関心を示し、綿密な注意を払っていたが、その絵画は硬く不器用なスタイルであるとしてしばしば批判された。 1860年代、エグリーはロマンチックな18世紀の主題を取り入れたファッションを採用しました。彼は非常に多くの確実に売れる絵画を制作しましたが、彼の作品は批評的に称賛されることはありませんでした。