Waller

Samuel Edmond Waller (1850-1903)

Samuel Edmond Waller was born in Gloucester in 1850 and was a painter of genre pictures. Waller was educated at Cheltenham College with a view to the army, but showing artistic inclinations he was sent to Gloucester School of Art and later went through a course of architectural studies following in his father’s footsteps. At eighteen he joined the Royal Academy schools and in 1871 he had his first exhibition at Burlington House. He has works at The National Gallery, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Tate Gallery, London.