A Mermaid, from 1900 ... and the volumes of Tennyson and Shelley in which Waterhouse drew sketches. John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was born in Rome before studying painting in London.

John William Waterhouse is best known for being the last Pre-Raphaelite painter — though he was nothing of the kind — and for the presence of at least a dozen of his pictures in the collection ...

Hylas and the Nymphs, painted by John William Waterhouse in 1896 and one of the most recognisable of the pre-Raphaelite paintings, was taken down on Friday, and postcards of the picture will be ...

the news that John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia” and John William Waterhouse’s “The Lady of Shalott” came top in the recent poll of favourite British masterpieces was disappointing.