did the painter travel to any other country?
London
The Dawn of Love (painting)
London
by whom was the dawn of love painted? By English artist William Etty what is it about? It shows a nude Venus leaning across to wake the sleeping Love by stroking his wings. when was it completed? In 1828 how was the painting received by the people? It immediately met with a storm of derision from critics for the style in which Venus was painted who was the painter's mentor in early years? Thomas Lawrence
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The Dawn of Love (painting) [SEP] Background
William Etty was born in 1787, the son of a York baker and miller. He began as an apprentice printer in Hull. On completing his seven-year apprenticeship he moved at the age of 18 to London "with a few pieces of chalk crayons", with the intention of becoming a history painter in the tradition of the Old Masters. He enrolled at the Royal Academy, and after a year spent studying under renowned portrait painter Thomas Lawrence, Etty returned to the Royal Academy, drawing at the life class and copying other paintings. A follower of John Opie, who promoted the unfashionable painting style of Titian and Rubens over the then-prevalent formal style of Joshua Reynolds, Etty was unsuccessful in all the Academy's competitions and every work he submitted to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in the 1810s was rejected.