Oules

Oules, WALTER WILLIAM, portrait-painter, was born 21st September 1848, at St Helier's, Jersey, and educated at Victoria College, Jersey. He began to study art in London in 1864; four years later first exhibited at the Academy; and became an A.R.A. 1877, an R.A. in 1881. Of his portraits perhaps that of Darwin is most generally known on account of the very fine etching from it by Rajon. Mr Oules never paints a commonplace portrait, his work is sober and manly, and he is too great a student of character to make his art the medium of flattery. His portraits of Justice Manisty and Cardinal Newman are fine examples of his different methods.