William frederick yeames biography of mahatma gandhi

Self-Portrait, 1884.

William Frederick Yeames R.A. (1835-1918) was born on 18 December 1835 in Taganrog, Russia, the son of William Yeames, the British Consul, and his wife Eliza Mary Henley.

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He was educated at home. In 1842 the family travelled to Italy via Malta. The family visited Naples, Rome, Florence, Padua and Venice. After his father's death in Venice from typhoid fever in 1843, William was sent to Dresden in 1844 to begin his studies to become an artist where he studied under artists named Nieman and Franken.

After a change in his family's financial circumstances they moved to London in 1848.

Yeames studied anatomy and composition from George Scharf where his fellow pupil was P. H. Calderon.

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Yeames later took lessons from F. S. Westmacott with whom he worked for some time. In 1852 Yeames travelled to Florence where he studied with Professors Enrico Pollastrini and Raphael Buonajuti of the Florence Academy. During his time in Florence he painted at the Life School of t