He exhibited "Richard duke of Gloucester and the Lady Anne" there in 1896, and in that year was elected A.R.A., becoming a full member in 1898. In 1890 he made his first appearance with an oil painting, "A May Day Morn", at the Royal Academy in London.
King Lear, Act I, Scene I (1897-98), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Possibly his best known pastels are "Beatrice", "Phyllis", and "Two Noble Kinsmen". Among his water-colours are "The Evil Eye" (1877), "The Rose in October" (1879), "An Old Song" (1886), "The Visitors" (1890), and "The Jongleur" (1892). He also created illustrations for Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1887), for a volume of Old Songs (1889), and for the comedies (and a few of the tragedies) of Shakespeare. When we note such a rare combination of qualities, we cease to be surprised at the cordial recognition awarded his genius by the best judges, both in London and Paris, even before he had left this country. And then compare with these disadvantages the amount and the quality of the illustrations he has turned out, and we see represented in him genius of a high order, combining almost inexhaustible creativeness, clearness and vividness of conception, a versatile fancy, a poetic perception of beauty, a quaint, delicate humor, a wonderful grasp of whatever is weird and mysterious, and admirable chiaro-oscuro, drawing, and composition. It must be taken into consideration that he is still very young that he now for the first time visits the studios and galleries of Europe that his advantages for a regular art education have been very moderate, and that he is practically self-educated.
About this time, he was appraised critically by the American writer, S.G.W. In 1883, he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. He moved to England in 1878, at the request of his employers, to gather material for illustrations of the poems of Robert Herrick, published in 1882, and he settled permanently there in 1883. Abbey also illustrated a four-volume set of The Comedies of Shakespeare for Harper & Brothers in 1896. He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens (1875), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick (1882), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith (1887).
His illustrations were strongly influenced by French and German black and white art. His illustrations began appearing in Harper's Weekly before Abbey was twenty years old. Abbey began as an illustrator, producing numerous illustrations and sketches for such magazines as Harper's Weekly (1871–1874) and Scribner's Magazine. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele. Edwin Austin Abbey (1888), by John Singer Sargent, Yale University Art Gallery.Ībbey was born in Philadelphia on Apto commercial broker William Maxwell Abbey and Margery Ann Kiple.
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