Last week, I talked about Herbert James Draper and featured his painting A Water Baby. Today’s feature is another one of his works, called The Water Nixie from 1908, sometimes called The Water Nymph. The painting shares the title with a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 79 from Hanau in Hesse, […]

Herbert James Draper (1863-1920) was an English Neoclassical painter and illustrator whose career spanned the Victorian era and the first two decades of the 20th century. He was born in Covent Garden, London, on November 26, 1863 and was the only male son and seventh child of fruit merchant John James Draper and his wife, […]