John Collier and Lady Godiva

'Lady Godiva' (c.1898) by John Collier; Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry

English artist John Collier, born on 27 January 1850 and died on 11 April 1934, studied under Sir Edward Poynter and later under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. He also got introduced to the work of John Everett Millais and painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He became a popular portrait painter in Victorian and Edwardian England. His primary subjects were beautiful women of myth, legend and literature. I have heard of John Collier but didn't know whether he was a great painter or what paintings he had made. But this painting of Lady Godiva seems familiar. It is beautiful. Great colours, body and hair. If you wonder what the story with Lady Godiva was again, click here.