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Herbert James Draper (1863-1920) was an English Neoclassicist painter known for mythological scenes drawn from ancient Greece, featuring sensuous portrayals of both male and female figures. His most celebrated painting is The Lament for Icarus (1898), which won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.
Draper was born in Covent Garden, London, and educated at Bruce Castle School in Tottenham. He studied art at the Royal Academy and undertook educational trips to Rome and Paris between 1888 and 1892 after winning the Royal Academy Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship in 1889.
The Lament for Icarus won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. The Chantrey Trustees later purchased it for the Tate Gallery.
Draper was proposed for membership in the Royal Academy four times, in 1898, 1903, 1905, and 1920, but was passed over for election each time. The source does not give a reason for his repeated exclusion.
As mythological scenes fell out of fashion, Draper concentrated more on portraits. His subjects included the army officer Sir William Edmund Franklyn, the physician Philip Pye-Smith (commissioned by Guy's Hospital), the actress June Tripp (painted twice), Lucius O'Brien the 15th Baron Inchiquin, and his own wife Ida.
Draper died of arteriosclerosis at the age of 56, at his home on Abbey Road in London. He was born in 1863 and died in 1920.