1-273-643 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in England, and the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with historical designs. He became a Royal Academician in 1872, and became the Academy's professor and lecturer on painting in 1875. Armitage was a great collector of insects. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).