Realistic painting in acrylic of the English sculptor Thomas Woolner with his famous work; "Virgilia laments the absence of Coriolanus", painted by the artist Paul Meijering - the original painting is 90 x 90 cm and available for sale.
Thomas Woolner (Hadleigh, Suffolk, 17 December 1825 - London, 7 October 1892) was an English sculptor and poet. He was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and was the only sculptor in that company.
Woolner was trained by the sculptor William Behnes. From 1842 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and exhibited there for the first time in 1843. There he made the acquaintance of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Woolner initially had little success in gaining commissions. Little remains of his early work, but his depiction of 'Puck', a character from William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, attracted the attention of Hunt and others, leading to an invitation to join the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in 1848.
He produced several pictures of famous people and thereby established his reputation, although he did not make a good living from the proceeds. As a poet, he contributed to The Germ, the movement's short-lived journal. One of the more famous poems he published in the magazine was 'My Beautiful Lady', a work that he would later expand considerably. However, he felt that he was more of a sculptor than a writer.
For almost 33 years now, Paul Meijering has been active with the paint brushes. As a 17- year old inspired youngster he joined the Academy of Arts in Enschede (Holland) in order to receive a native training in drawing- and painting technique.
At that time (1980) the tendency of the abstract was running riot, and to his dismay and disappointment Paul found that the trade of the ancient masters was merely 'old hat', the realistic art being disregarded and looked down upon. After two years of useless botchery, there was only one conclusion to draw: 'get autodidact, be a self-taught person!' Paul then left the academy to work for a living, but at the back of his mind there always loomed the passion of his life: to paint. At his spare time he painted and his efforts are characteristic as far as man plays an important role are concerned, or to put it in his own words: 'Each human being tinkers at his own existence, it is the source of inspiration to explain the non-verbal by way of painting'.
The paintings attracted attention at various exhibitions and he was frequently approached by trades-people, hotel-keepers, merchants. These customers were for the most part interested in large wall-paintings and decorations. In the year 2000 the painter develops a speciality that's quite unique: he applies himself to paint football pictures. After a year he gets the chance to realize an open exhibition for an indefinite time as well with the Dutch Football Union 'KNVB' in Zeist as in
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