威廉·莫·埃格利

1826-1916 English

维多利亚风俗画与精细服饰

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. 埃格利总是对服装的细节表现出浓厚的兴趣，并对此予以细致关注，但他的画作常因风格生硬、笨拙而受到批评。 19世纪60年代，埃格利采用了浪漫化的18世纪题材的时尚。尽管他创作了大量可靠且畅销的画作，但他的作品从未受到评论界的赞赏。