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        1. Herbert james draper ulysses and the sirens
        2. Biography.
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        4. Herbert James Draper was an English Classicist painter whose career began in the Victorian era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th century.
        5. Born in London, the son of a jeweller named Henry Draper and his wife Emma, he was educated at Bruce Castle School in Tottenham and then went on to study.

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          Biography

          Draper at work in his studio paijting Prospero Summoning Nymphs and Deities

          Draper was a painter of powerful and sensuous imaginative works who enjoyed considerable success around 1900.

          However, his work has been little studied, because his fluent academic draftsmanship, the result of a training received in Paris, rapidly became unfashionable in the 20th century. His merits are only now being reassessed.

          Draper was born in London and educated at the St.

          John's Wood Art School and, from 1884, at the Royal Academy Schools.

          Herbert James Draper was a British artist of the late Victorian period.

          He won the Royal Academy Travelling Scholarship in 1889 and studied at the Academie Julian in Paris and in Rome. He had already begun to exhibit at the Royal Academy, and showed there regularly between 1887 and his death. A number of his works were bought for the recently founded British provincial art galleries and may be found in Liverpool, Manchester, Bradford, Preston, Truro and Hull.

          In 1898, his 'Lament for Icarus' (Tate Gallery, London) was bough