John Callcott Horsley - Education

Education

Horsley was mentored by William Mulready and Augustus Wall Callcot who sent him at age thirteen to study at Dr Henry Sass's academy where he met met D.G Rossetti, J. Millais and W.P. Frith; in his biography Horsley recalls that Dr Sass as being vain and untalented. Following preparatory school Horsley goes on to study painting at the Royal Academy schools where he meets Thomas Webster, and in 1836 exhibits "The Pride of the Village" (Vernon Gallery) at the Royal Academy.

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