Gallery of the Masters 
William Frederick Yeames
1835-1918 England/The Clique Group
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Brief Biography-William Frederick Yeames was born in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia, in 1835. He is famed primarily for his painting And When Did You Last See Your Father, about parliamentarians interrogating a boy regarding the whereabouts of his loyalist father. His initial education was in Dresden, and he spent seven years in Italy studying the Great Masters. Finally, Yeames settled in London, where he was part of a group of artists known as the Saint John’s Wood Clique. He mainly painted English historical scenes of Tudor and Stuart times. In 1866 he became an Associate of the Royal Academy. |
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The
Fugitive Jacobite
A Venetian
Water-Carrier
A Visit to the
Haunted Chamber
Amy
Robsart
Amy Robsart's
Death
And When Did you
Last See Your Father
An Appeal
to the Podesta
Meeting of Sir
Thomas More
Dining
Hall
Cordelia
Staunch
Friends
The Path
of Roses
On the
Boulevard
Prince Arthur
and Hubert
The Latest
Scandal
A Cottage
Garden
The Dawn of the
Reformation
Arming of the
Young Knight
No
Title
Defendant
and Counsel
