The Siren 1888年
oil on canvas 画布に油彩
所蔵 Leeds Art Gallery
エドワード・アーミティジ Edward Armitage
(1817年 5月 – 1896年 5月)
彼は英国のヴィクトリア朝時代の画家で、
歴史画とか聖書に依拠した古典的なテーマの絵を描いた。
Family background
Armitage was born in London to a family of wealthy Yorkshire industrialists, the eldest of seven sons of James Armitage (1793–1872) and Anne Elizabeth Armitage née Rhodes (1788–1833), of Farnley Hall, just south of Leeds, Yorkshire. His great-grandfather James (1730–1803) bought Farnley Hall from Sir Thomas Danby in 1799 and in 1844 four Armitage brothers, including his father James, founded the Farnley Ironworks, utilising the coal, iron and fireclay on their estate. His brother Thomas Rhodes Armitage (1824–1890) founded the Royal National Institute of the Blind.
Armitage was the uncle of Robert Armitage (MP), the great-uncle of Robert Selby Armitage, and first cousin twice removed of Edward Leathley Armitage.
