Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm grasping a branch in leaf

grasping a branch in leaf with fore-claws and tail

He used decisive and brutal methods to quell the rebellions and corruption that had become endemic within the empire

with a white shirt and lace neck-cloth

Kathy Kirby

Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm grasping a branch in leafEdward 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