Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:XS: 25 x 20cm View of the ship

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An old man stands at the door of a brothel at the corner of Portland Street

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Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:XS: 25 x 20cm View of the shipEdward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in England, and the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with historical designs. He became a Royal Academician in 1872, and became the Academy's professor and lecturer on painting in 1875. Armitage was a great collector of insects. From Men of Mark: a gallery of