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Precocious in talent, he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 11. Early acquaintanceship with Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti led to the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and, inspired by its doctrine of truth to nature, he produced some of his best works during the 1950s, among them the painting of Miss Siddell as Ophelia and Christ in the House of His Parents (1850; Tate Gallery, London); the latter caused an outcry on its first showing, since its realistic detail was considered unfitting to a sacred subject.
His marriage to Euphemia Gray in 1855 after the annulment of her marriage to John Ruskin estranged him from that early mentor and the milieu of Pre-Raphaelite idealism. His illustrations for the Moxon Tennyson (1857) and Trollope's Orley Farm (1863) show the change from Pre-Raphaelite principle to mid-Victorian Academicism. Though appealing to popular sentiment, his original style and quality disappeared from his later subject pictures and portraits, which include The Boyhood of Raleigh (1870; Tate Gallery, London) and the hugely successful Bubbles (1885), used as an advertisement by the Pears soap company. He became a baronet in 1885, and president of the Royal Academy in 1896.
The temple of Angkor Wat had five towers but often only three are depicted. Red and blue recall the earlier flags of Cambodia. Effective date: 20 June 1993.
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