Herbert James Draper

Herbert James Draper ((1863-11-26)26 November 1863 – (1920-09-22)22 September 1920) was an English Neoclassicist painter whose career began in the Victorian era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th century.

[3] He undertook several educational trips to Rome and Paris between 1888 and 1892, having won the Royal Academy Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship in 1889.

His painting The Lament for Icarus (1898) won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and was later bought for the Tate Gallery by the Chantrey Trustees.

[3] Among his portrait subjects are the army officer Sir William Edmund Franklyn,[8] Lucius O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin, his wife and his eldest son Donough as a young boy,[9] the physician Philip Pye-Smith (commissioned by Guy's Hospital),[10] the actress June Tripp (twice),[11] in addition to his wife, who may also have served as the model for his Autumn.

[15][16] The Royal Cornwall Museum's 2010 auction of his The Sea Maiden and Ernest Normand's Bondage to help secure its finances generated debate about the policy of disposing of art works for this purpose.