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{{Tradotto da|en|ThomasAnthony WoolnerFrederick Augustus Sandys|238 aprile 2009|285559509Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys}}

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[[Image:Stamford Raffles statue.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Replica of a statue of [[Sir Stamford Raffles]] by Woolner, erected at the spot where he first landed at [[Singapore]]. The original statue stands at the [[Victoria Memorial Hall]].]]

== Biografia ==

Nato nel [[Suffolk]] il suo insegnante fu lo scultore [[William Behnes]].

Fu uno dei membri fondatori della [[confraternita dei preraffaelliti]], espose i suoi lavori alla [[Royal Academy]] dal [[1843]].

[[File:Frederick Sandys by Anthony Sands.jpg|right|thumb|Portrait of Frederick Sandys by Anthony Sands, 1848]]

Il medievalismo dei preraffaelliti era in contrasto con le sue inclinazioni [[classicismo|classicheggianti]], ma si trovò d'accordo con l'idea dell'osservazione ravvicinata della natura. Già subito dopo la fondazione della confraternita dimostrò la sua grande attenzione per i dettagli nei suoi ritratti nei busti e nei medaglioni.

'''Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys''' (born ''Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands'') (1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), but usually known as '''Frederick Sandys''', was a [[British people|British]] [[Pre-Raphaelite]] painter, illustrator and draughtsman, of the [[Victorian era]].

Fu obbligato ad emigrare in [[Australia]] per un periodo e qui subito si propose come scultore e gallerista. La sua permanenza in Australia lo aiutò ad ottenere commissioni lì ed altrove per realizzare statue di eroi imperiali britannici, come [[James Cook]] e [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]]

[[Image:Mariya Magdalena.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Mary Magdalene (Sandys painting)|Mary Magdalene]]'' (1858–60)]]

I suoi lavori personali più complessi sono probabilmente ''Civilisation'' (''Civilizzazione'') e ''Virgilia''. Fu eletto membro della [[Royal Academy]] nel [[1875]] e lì insegnò scultura dal [[1877]] al [[1879]].

[[Image:Morganlfay.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Morgan le Fay (Sandys painting)|Morgan le Fay]]'', (1864) [[Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery]]]]

==Biography==

He was born in [[Norwich, England]] and received his earliest lessons in art from his father, who was himself a painter. His early studies show that he had a natural gift for careful and beautiful drawing. In 1846 Sandys attended the Norwich School of Design. In the same and next year his talent was recognized by the [[Society of Arts]]. He displayed great skills as a draughtsman, achieving recognition with his print parodying [[John Everett Millais]]'s ''Sir Isumbras at the Ford'' in 1857. The caricaturist turned the horse of Sir Isumbras into a donkey labelled J. R., Oxon. ([[John Ruskin]]). Upon it were seated Millais himself, in the character of the knight, with [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Rossetti]] and [[William Holman Hunt]] as the two children, one before and one behind. Rossetti and Sandys became intimate friends, and for about a year and a quarter, ending in the summer of 1867, Sandys lived with Rossetti at Tudor House (now called Queens House) in [[Cheyne Walk]], [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]]. His own works were profoundly influenced by those of Rossetti. He focused mainly on mythological subjects and portraits.

By this time Sandys was known as a painter of remarkable gifts. He had begun by drawing for ''[[Once a Week]]'', the ''[[Cornhill Magazine]]'', ''[[Good Words]]'' and other periodicals. He drew only in the magazines. No books illustrated by him can be traced. So his exquisite draughtsmanship has to be sought for in the old bound-up periodical volumes which are now hunted by collectors, or in publications such as Dalziels' Bible Gallery and the Cornhill Gallery and books of drawings, with verses attached to them, made to lie upon the drawing-room tables of those who had for the most part no idea of their merits. Every drawing Sandys made was a work of art, and many of them were so faithfully engraved that they are worthy of the collector's portfolio. Early in the 1860s he began to exhibit the paintings which set the seal upon his fame. The best known of these are ''[[Vivien (Sandys painting)|Vivien]]'' (1863), ''[[Morgan le Fay (Sandys painting)|Morgan le Fay]]'' (1864), ''[[Cassandra (Sandys painting)|Cassandra]]'' and ''[[Medea (Sandys painting)|Medea]]'' (1868).

Woolner fu anche un poeta di una certa fama all'epoca, il suo primo poema ''My Beatiful Lady'' (''la mia bella signora'') appartiene ancora alla corrente preraffaellita, nei suoi lavori più tardi ''Pygmalion'', ''Silenus'' e ''Tiresius'' si sposta verso un classicismo [[erotismo|erotico]].

Sandys never became a popular painter. He painted little, and the dominant influence upon his art was the influence exercised by lofty conceptions of tragic power. There was in it a sombre intensity and an almost stern beauty which lifted it far above the ideals of the crowd. The Scandinavian Sagas and [[Le Morte d'Arthur]] gave him subjects after his own heart. The Valkyrie and Morgan le Fay represent his work at its very best. He made a number of chalk drawings of famous men of letters, including [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]], [[Robert Browning|Browning]], [[Matthew Arnold]], and [[James Russell Lowell]].

Woolner fu amico intimo del poeta [[Alfred Tennyson]] a cui fornì lo scenario per il poema ''Enoch Arden''. Le sue speculazioni sull'anatomia umana impressionarono tanto [[Charles Darwin]] che rinominò la parte dell'orecchio umano chiamata ''[[tubercolo di Darwin]]'' in ''punta Woolneriana''.

He married Georgiana Creed, but this marriage only lasted three years, although they never divorced. He had a long affair with the Romany [[Keomi Gray]] (she sat as the model for the "Medea" amongst other paintings.) He settled with actress Mary Emma Jones (who was known as "Mrs Sandys") for the rest of his life. He died in the Kensington area of London in 1904.

Thomas Woolner morì istantaneamente per colpa di un [[ictus]] all'età di 67 anni. Sua moglie Alice morì nel [[1912]]. Il loro figlio Hugh, tornando indietro dal funerale di lei verso [[New York]] si imbarcò sul [[Titanic]]. Tuttavia sopravvisse all'affondamento. <ref>[Hugh Woolner http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/fleecing_of_woolner.html]</ref>

==See Note also==

*[[List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings]] - including the work of Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys.

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==External links==

== Collegamenti esterni ==

{{commonscat|Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys}}

* {{gutenberg author| id=Woolner+Thomas | name=Thomas Woolner}}

*{{ARC artist|478}}

* [http://www.visitcumbria.com/woolner.htm Thomas Woolner in ''Cumbria'']

*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sandys_frederick.html Frederick Sandys] at Artcylopaedia.

*[http://www.sandys.norfolk.gov.uk/ Frederick Sandys & the Pre-Raphaelites] at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery.

*[http://www.victorianartinbritain.co.uk/biog/sandys.htm Frederick Sandys] at Victorian Art in Britain.

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