Collins, Charles Allston
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| born on | 25 January 1828 at 00:45 (= 12:45 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Hampstead, England, 51n34, 0w11 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m0w11 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   04°06'   17°21 Asc. 01°17'
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Biography
British painter, writer and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
He was the son of landscape and genre painter William Collins. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.
Collins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850. This depicted the wife of King Richard the Lionheart noticing her missing husband's girdle offered for sale by a peddlar. The flattened modelling, emphasis on pattern making, and imagery of embroidery were all characteristic features of Pre-Raphaelitism. Millais proposed that Collins should become a member of the Brotherhood, but Thomas Woolner and William Michael Rossetti objected, so he never became an official member.
Collins fell in love with Maria Rossetti, but she rejected him. He became increasingly ascetic and introspective. These attitudes were expressed in Collins's best-known work, Convent Thoughts, which depicted a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images.
In the late 1850s, however, he abandoned art to follow his brother into a writing career. His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title The Eye Witness (1860).
Collins married Charles Dickens's daughter Kate in 1860, later designing the cover for Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He died from cancer on 9 April 1873 in London.
Relationships
- spouse relationship with Dickens, Kate (born 29 October 1839)
- sibling relationship with Collins, Wilkie (born 8 January 1824)
- has other family relationship with Dickens, Charles (born 7 February 1812). Notes: in-laws
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes family bible transcribed in "Family Genealogica" by F. A. Crisp, Vol. X (1889), p. 8: "Charles Allston Collins. Born January 25th 1828 ¼ before 1 in the morning at Pond Street, Hampstead."
Categories
- Vocation : Art : Commercial artist (book illustrator)
- Vocation : Art : Fine art artist (painter)
- Vocation : Writers : Humor
