John Elliott (artist)

For other people named John Elliott, see John Elliott (disambiguation).

John Elliott
Portrait by José Villegas Cordero, 1905
DETAIL: "The Triumph of Time" Mural by John Elliott at the Boston Public Library

John Elliott (April 22, 1858 – May 26, 1925) was an artist, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Carolus-Duran. In 1878, he went to Rome to study with José Villegas Cordero and there met his future wife, Maud Howe, Pulitzer-prize-winning American writer and the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."[1] Elliott is known for his epic Symbolist murals including working alongside his friend and colleague John Singer Sargent to provide murals for the Boston Public library, as well as creating a mural in the National Museum (now the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.)

  1. ^ Eaton, Walter Pritchard (July 1910). "The Painter of "Diana of the Tides"". Everybody's Magazine. 23 (1): 95–103.