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Crane (WALTER painter born)

WALTER, painter; born in Liverpool, Aug. 15, 1845; an English the son of an artist, Thomas Crane (1808- 1859). He himself was trained as an artist, and much of his work consisted of book-illustrations. Among these may be named his series of "Toy-books" (1869- 1875); "The Baby's Opera" (1877), and to exhibit paintings at the Royal Acadto exhibit paintings at the Royal Academy, showing in that year "The Lady of Shalott," and he was a constant contribfoundation in 1877 till 1888. His pictures foundation in 1877 till 1888. His His pictures nearly always deal, in a somewhat decorative fashion, with subjects of an imaginative nature, such as "The Riddle of the Sphinx" (1887); "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (1895)., He also painted " Britannia's (1897); "The World's Conqueror" (1898), etc. He also produced many very delicate landscape subjects in water-colors; designed wall papers; and published poems, illustrated by himself, "Queen's Summer" (1891), and "The Claims of Decorative Art" (1892). Since 1888 a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors, he was in 1893 appointed art director to the city of Manchester. He was a prominent socialist, and died in 1905.