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| | Holl, Francis Montague | (English, 1845-1888) |
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| | Frank Holl, an English painter, was born in
London in 1845 and was educated chiefly at University College School. | | He was a grandson of William Holl, an engraver of note, and the son of Francis Holl, A.R.A., another engraver, whose profession he originally intended to follow. Entering the Royal Academy schools as a probationer in painting in 1860, he rapidly progressed, winning silver and gold medals. In 1869, he was recruited as an artist by the engraver and social reformer William Luson Thomas, to work on Thomas's newly founded newspaper, The Graphic. | | Holl was much below Millais in portraiture, and far inferior in all the higher ways of design; in technical resources. Van Gogh was a great lover of Holl's works and wrote enthusiastically to his brother Theo about them. | | Throughout the latter part of his life, Holl was overwhelmed with commissions which he never declined. Furthermore, in 1886, he produced a portrait of Millais as his diploma work, but his health rapidly declined and he died at Hampstead, on July 31, 1888. |
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