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Charles Allston Collins (25 January 1828 – 9 April 1873) was a British painter and writer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of England Paintings, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, Thomas Woolner and William Holman Hunt....
.

ins was born in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, London, the son of the well-known landscape and genre painter William Collins
William Collins (painter)

William Collins was a British landscape and genre painter.Collins was a highly successful artist, whose work was better known in his day than that of his rival John Constable....
. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was an English people novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work....
.

He was educated at Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is an Headmasters Conference, Roman Catholic school in the Society of Jesus tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building....
 in Lancashire
Lancashire

Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
.

ins met John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, Royal Academy was an English Painting and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....
 and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850.






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Charles Allston Collins (25 January 1828 – 9 April 1873) was a British painter and writer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of England Paintings, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, Thomas Woolner and William Holman Hunt....
.

Early life

Collins was born in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, London, the son of the well-known landscape and genre painter William Collins
William Collins (painter)

William Collins was a British landscape and genre painter.Collins was a highly successful artist, whose work was better known in his day than that of his rival John Constable....
. His older brother was the novelist Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was an English people novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work....
.

He was educated at Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is an Headmasters Conference, Roman Catholic school in the Society of Jesus tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building....
 in Lancashire
Lancashire

Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
.

Painting career

Collins met John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, Royal Academy was an English Painting and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....
 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
Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Brittany at various times during the same period....
 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
Thomas Woolner

Thomas Woolner was an English sculpture and poet.Born in Hadleigh, Suffolk he was a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Woolner trained with the sculptor William Behnes, exhibiting work at the Royal Academy from 1843....
 and William Michael Rossetti
William Michael Rossetti

William Michael Rossetti was an English writer and critic....
 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
Convent Thoughts

Convent Thoughts is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Charles Allston Collins which was created between 1850 and 1851. Collins sent it to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1851 where it was exhibited....
, which depicted a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images.

Literary career

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).

Later life

Collins married Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement....
's daughter Kate
Kate Perugini

Kate Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens....
 in 1860, later designing the cover for Dickens' unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished work at the time of Dickens' death and thus what happened to the titular character remains a real mystery....
. He died in 1873 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery is located near Earl's Court in West Brompton, a part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London, England....
, London.

See also

  • List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings
    List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings

    This is a list of paintings produced by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and other artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelite style....
     - including the works of Charles Allston Collins.


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