John Trivett Nettleship

His mother was Isabella Ann, daughter of James Hogg, vicar of Geddington and Master of Kettering Grammar School.

Having won the English verse prize on the subject of "Venice" in 1856, he was taken away comparatively young, in order to enter his father's office.

Admitted a solicitor and in practice for a brief period, he decided to devote himself to art, and entered himself as a student at Heatherley's and at the Slade School in London, but was largely self-taught.

[1] For twenty-seven years (1874–1901) he exhibited spacious oil pictures of lions, tigers, etc., at the Royal Academy and for most of the period at the Grosvenor Gallery.

Another book that shows both his mature power of literary expression and his opinions about his own art is George Morland and the Evolution from him of some Later Painters (1898).

They were admirers of William Blake, on friendly terms with the Pre-Raphaelites or at least the Rossetti brothers, and part of the Bedford Park social and artistic group.