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About This Website

A personal project dedicated to the life and work of John William Waterhouse

About This Website

This website is an ongoing personal project by Julia Kerr dedicated to the appreciation of the life and work of the British painter John William Waterhouse (1849–1917).

Our Objectives

  1. Offer an online archive of Waterhouse's works — paintings, drawings, sketches and studies.
  2. Provide biographical information, reproductions of out-of-print articles, and original, previously unpublished research.
  3. Keep track of newly discovered paintings.
  4. Offer news of upcoming art auctions, exhibitions and events.
  5. Provide details of new books and scholarly articles.
  6. Give pointers on where to view Waterhouse's pictures in person.
  7. Act as a contact point for any Waterhouse-related questions.

History of This Website

This website has been built and maintained since the early 2000s as one of the first dedicated online resources for the study of J.W. Waterhouse. Over the decades it has grown from a simple gallery of images into a comprehensive archive covering Waterhouse's complete known works, biographical research, primary source documents, and scholarship from guest contributors around the world.

The site has been redesigned and rebuilt several times to keep pace with advances in web technology, and is now powered by Astro and hosted on Cloudflare. Content is authored in Markdown and managed via a headless CMS, making it easy to add new paintings, articles and news as they come to light.

Contributors

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Julia Kerr

Site Author

Julia Kerr is the founder and primary author of this website. She has been researching and writing about J.W. Waterhouse for over two decades, contributing biographical overviews, primary source transcriptions, and original research across more than thirty articles.

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Scott Thomas Buckle

Guest Contributor

Scott Thomas Buckle is an independent art historian and collector specialising in 19th-century British drawings and Victorian artists' models. He has provided advice to museums, galleries and auction houses worldwide, and has contributed original research identifying several of Waterhouse's models.

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Peter Trippi

Guest Contributor

Peter Trippi has edited Fine Art Connoisseur since 2006. He previously directed New York's Dahesh Museum of Art and held senior posts at the Brooklyn Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2002, Phaidon Press published his monograph J W Waterhouse, and he co-curated the major Waterhouse retrospective of 2008–10.

Credits

This website is dedicated to the late Anthony Hobson, without whose research and books the creation of this website would not have been possible. Gratitude is also due to: Cathy and Ken Baker, Scott Thomas Buckle, Rob Cartwright, Susan Katz, Michael Kelley, Donald J. Kurtz, Andrew Marvick, "mischief", John Montgomery, Peter Nahum, Jim Nordstrom, Dr. John Physick, Leonard Roberts, Peter Trippi, and many others from around the world.

Copyright

Works by J.W. Waterhouse are in the public domain. For commercial licensing, please contact Bridgeman Art Library or Art Resource.

Support This Website

There is no advertising on this website. If you'd like to contribute towards its running costs or help cover the cost of purchasing additional research material, you're welcome to buy me a coffee!

Get in Touch

Please visit the contact page if you have any questions or information to share.