Valentine Walter Bromley

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Valentine Walter Bromley (14 February 1848 – 30 April 1877) was a British artist. He was born into a well-known family of artists: his grandfather,

Royal Academy; his great-grandfather, William Bromley the Elder
, also an engraver.

Valentine Bromley received his art education from his father, William Bromley (III), a member of the Institute of British Artists. At the age of nineteen, he became an Associate of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours.

A frequent art correspondent for The Illustrated London News, Bromley also worked as a book-illustrator; among other works, he illustrated Lord Dunraven's 'Great Divide'.

Bromley died unexpectedly at the age of twenty-nine at Fallows Green,

Shakespeare
.

Notable Artwork

  • Flora by Valentine Walter Bromley, 1874
    Flora by Valentine Walter Bromley, 1874

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Bromley, Valentine Walter". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.