威廉·莫·埃格利

1826-1916 English

維多利亞風俗畫與精細服飾

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. 埃格利總是對服裝的細節表現出濃厚的興趣，並對此予以細緻關注，但他的畫作常因風格生硬、笨拙而受到批評。 19世紀60年代，埃格利採用了浪漫化的18世紀題材的時尚。儘管他創作了大量可靠且暢銷的畫作，但他的作品從未受到評論界的讚賞。