Samuel Edmund Waller
Samuel Edmund Waller (18 June 1850 – 14 June 1903) was an English painter of genre pictures. Biography. Waller, was born at the Spa, Gloucester, on 18 June 1850, to Frederick Sandham Waller, and his wife Anne Elizabeth Hitch. His father, was an architect practising in Gloucester, who ably restored considerable portions of Gloucester Cathedral in perfect harmony with the original design. Young Waller, was educated at Cheltenham College with a view to the army, but showing artistic inclinations was sent to the Gloucester School of Art, and later went through a course of architectural studies in his  father's office. This training proved of service to him, for many of his pictures have architectural backgrounds. At eighteen he entered the Royal Academy Schools, and three years later (1871) he exhibited his first pictures at Burlington House entitled "A Winter's Tale" and "The Illustrious Stranger". In 1872 he went to Iceland, and published an illustrated account in 1874 of his travels entitled "Six Weeks in the Saddle" . In 1873 he joined the staff of "The Graphic". The following year he appeared at the Royal Academy with a work called "Soldiers of Fortune", and henceforward was a steady  exhibitor there until 1902. His chief and best-known pictures were "Jealous" (1875), now in the National Gallery, Melbourne; "The Way of the World" (1876), "Home"? (1877), now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales; "The Empty Saddle" (1879), with an architectural setting taken from Burford Priory, Oxfordshire; "Success!" (1881), and "Sweethearts and Wives" (1882), are both held by the Tate Gallery. Later works include "The Day of Reckoning" (1883), "Peril" (1886), "The Morning of Agincourt" (1888), "In his Father's Footsteps" (1889), "Dawn" (1890), "One-and-Twenty" (1891), "The Ruined Sanctuary" (1892), "Alone!" (1896), "Safe" (1898), "My Hero