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Benjamin Walter Spiers

Benjamin Walter Spiers (fl.1875 - 1893) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Benjamin Spiers is known for Painting.

Benjamin Walter Spiers' interiors overflow with prints, drawings, leather-bound books, painted porcelain, musical instruments, arms and armor, atlases and globes and other everyday and esoteric objects.  While seemingly jumbled, leaning towers of dusty volumes, sliding piles of worn prints, and abandoned musical instruments are the result of brilliant planning by the artist (as demonstrated by grid marks and notations made in the margins of A Bachelor's Breakfast).  The incredible level of illusionistic detail, from the fine embroidery of the Turkish Ottoman textile thrown over the chair in the present work, to the brand name legible on the cigar box of A Bachelor's Breakfast, draws the viewer's eye -- and offers tantalizing biographical clues about the elusive artist himself.

Though art historian Christopher Wood considers Spiers "one of the most remarkable painters of still-life in English Art," virtually nothing is known of his life (Wo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3657 characters.]  Artist bio

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