Paul falconer poole biography of williams
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Paul Falconer Poole was born in Bristol, the son of a grocer.
Though self-taught, his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy, and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists. Paul Falconer Poole was born on 28 December at 43 College Street in Bristol, England, the fourth son of James Paul Poole, a Bristol coal merchant.
Poole exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being The Well, a scene in Naples. There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his Farewell, Farewell in , which was followed by the Emigrant's Departure, Hermann and Dorothea and By the Waters of Babylon.
In , his position was made secure by his Solomon Eagle, and by his success in the Cartoon Exhibition, in which he received from the Fine Art Commissioners a prize of E sterling. After his exhibition of the Surrender of Syon House, he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in , and was made an acad