Charles Allston Collins

Charles Allston Collins
Charles Allston Collins by John Everett Millais in 1850
Convent Thoughts by Collins

Charles Allston Collins (25 January 1828 – 9 April 1873) was a British painter, writer and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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Life and work

Early years

Collins was born in Hampstead, London, the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.

Painting career

Collins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850. This depicted the wife of King Richard the Lionheart noticing her missing husband's girdle offered for sale by a peddlar. The flattened modelling, emphasis on pattern making, and imagery of embroidery were all characteristic features of Pre-Raphaelitism. Millais proposed that Collins should become a member of the Brotherhood, but Thomas Woolner and William Michael Rossetti objected, so he never became an official member.

Collins fell in love with Maria Rossetti, but she rejected him. He became increasingly ascetic and introspective. These attitudes were expressed in Collins's best-known work, Convent Thoughts, which depicted a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images.

Literary career

In the late 1850s, however, he abandoned art to follow his brother into a writing career. His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title The Eye Witness (1860).

Later life

Collins married Charles Dickens's daughter Kate in 1860, later designing the cover for Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He died in 1873 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

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