- Ernest Albert Waterlow
Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow RA (1850 – 1919) was an English painter. He was born in
London , and received the main part of his art education in the Royal Academy schools, where, in 1873, he gained the Turner medal for landscape-painting.He was elected associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1880, member in 1894, and president in 1897; associate of the
Royal Academy in 1890, and academician in 1903; and he was knighted in 1902.He began to exhibit in 1872 and produced a considerable number of admirable landscapes, in oil and
watercolour , handled with grace and distinction. One of his pictures, "Galway Gossips," is in the National Gallery of British Art.Further reading
*"Sir E. A. Waterloo, R.A., P.R.W.S.", by C Collins Baker (Art Journal Office, 1906).
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