... First, his reputation has always been overshadowed by that of Leighton Secondly; it was Poynter's misfortune to live too long into the twentieth century." President of the Royal Academy in London, Poynter received most of his training in Rome where he closely studied the works of Michelangelo. "Poynter was an outstanding draughtsman in the academic tradition, who loved drawing for its own ... sake, and he made numerous fluent studies, many of them in black chalk, for each of his paintings." Furthermore, Poynter painted mostly religious and biblical figures ... , although "Despite impecca...

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