Poynter
SIR EDWARD JOHN, an Westminster English painter; born in Paris, March 20, 1836; educated at Westminster School and Ipswich Grammar School; reand Ipswich Grammar School; received his art training at the Royal Academy and under Gleyre in Paris; gained a reputation by his "Israel in Egypt," exhibited in 1867, and "The Catapult" (1868); painted the cartoons for the mosaic of St. George in the Westminster Palace (1869). Among his chief pictures are "Perseus and Andromeda" (1872); "The Golden Age" (1875); "Atalanta's Race" (1876); "Diadumene" (1885); and "A Roman Boat Race" (1889). He was elected an Associate in 1869 and a Royal Academician in 1876, was the first Slade Professor of Art at University College, London, and was director for art at South Kensington for some years. He became president of the Royal Academy and was knighted in 1896. He died in 1919.