Musée No:218.023 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm Hawaiian Fish

Hawaiian Fish

The Bathers

he is probably most famous for his Crucifixion (1822)

We do know that he was arrested and then held under house arrest for fifty days in 1804 for making illegal prints depicting a 16th-century military ruler - artists were not allowed to portray famous political figures yet he signed his provocative paintings

John Curtis (1791 –1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator

Musée No:218.023 Size:A4 - 297mm x 210mm Hawaiian FishFishes Artist: Watanabe Seitei Date: 1887 Watanabe Seitei (also Watanabe Shtei) 1851 1918 was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style. Nihonga was a movement in the early 1900s with the aim of updating and developing a more modern Japanese style but in keeping with the traditional Japanese conventions and techniques. It emphasized the importance and beauty of the thousand year old traditional style whilst distinguishing it from the more western style