30-day challenge #6: John Willian Waterhouse was born in 1849, in Rome.Years later he moved to London, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Art. He firstly studied sculpture and only then started on painting. In 1874 his artwork "Sleep and his Half-brother Death" was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition and it turned out to be a success. In 1883 he married to Esther Kenworthy, who was also an artist. In 1895 he was ellected to the full Academician status and served on the Royal Academy Council, taught at the St. John's Wood Art School and joined the St John's Wood Arts Club. His masterpieces were mostly of women in the Ancient Greek Myths and in Arthurian Legends. He died in 1917, in London, after facing cancer for two years.