JOHN WILLIAM GODWARD (1861-1922)

Oil on canvas

Signed: 'J.W.Godward 1913'

78.00 cm wide   132.00 cm high

30.71 inches wide  51.97 inches high

'In The Tepidarium' by John William Godward (English, 1861 - 1922)

Oil on canvas in the original giltwood frame with fluted ionic pilasters.

This stunning picture is representative of the work of the group of painters sometimes called the Marble School. Inspired by the work of Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, John William Godward (1861-1922), amongst others, painted subjects which harked back to the Classical age. The Ancient worlds of Greece and Rome were viewed as a past idyll, an age of beauty and certainty. The late Edwardian period was seen in a similar light to be lost forever, shattered by the events of the First World War. This Neoclassical approach with subjects drawn from ancient Greek and Roman life placed in elaborate settings, with especially careful and realistic rendering of details like marble and flowers, is typical of his work.

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