William Collins (painter)

William Collins
RA
Portrait of William Collins (1831) by John Linnell
Born(1788-09-08)8 September 1788
London, England
Died17 February 1847(1847-02-17) (aged 58)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish

William Collins RA (8 September 1788 in London – 17 February 1847 in London) was an English landscape and genre painter.[1] His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894. Turner, his model, far exceeded him in value (The Grand Canal, Venice, sold to Vanderbilt in 1885 for £20,000).[2]

  1. ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Collins, William (1788-1847)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 380–81.
  2. ^ Gerald Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste, London 1959, I.82, 277, 470)