Willian Lionel Wyllie - a name that is connected like no other with the realistic painting of the former Great Seal Great Power Great Britain. His pictures of the great naval battles of Trafalgar, the Battle of the Falkland Islands or "Track of Lusitania" are known to all British people since childhood. Even non-British art lovers with a preference for maritime and military motifs are familiar with William Lionel Wyllie's work.
Raised in France as the son of the painter William Morrison Wyllie, his interest in painting was encouraged from childhood on. He later attended the independent Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, as did his Hallbrother - the Victorian painter of idyllic motifs Lionel Percy Smythe. There he refined his technique and expressiveness to such an extent that he was accepted at the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 15. At 18 he was awarded the Turner Gold Medal for his oil painting "Dawn after a Storm". A honour that should become a door opener for him in his career. With this painting, a medium-sized sailing ship sailing towards the coast, a wider public became aware of him. This was the beginning of his graphic work on maritime topics for the magazine "The Graphic". This high-circulation weekly magazine influenced the art world of Europe far beyond the borders of the Commonwealth. The pictorial motifs created by W L Wyllie - as he called himself from the beginning of his career - thus influenced the idea of the lives of seafarers around the world. Colourful sunsets, impressive sailing ships and later the warships of the early 20th century inspired the imagination. But you didn't have to be a subscriber of The Graphic to see the pictures. During this period, around the 1900s, it became possible for the wider society in England to go to public museums and view the works exhibited there. And if you were employed at the British Stock Exchange, the London Exchange, you could see one of W L Wylie's fantastic murals there every day.
With his economic success W. L. Wyllie was able to create an extremely generous family life. His wife Marion bore him nine children, five of whom reached adulthood. The First World War, however, brought further blows of fate to the Wyllie family, the two sons Bill and Robert fell in the war. Through the time of mourning, painting and his routine daily routine could help him. He was a physically very fit man, after all he stood most of his work effortlessly on easels until he was 79 years old. His grave in the cemetery of Porchester Castle is a place of silent remembrance not only for art lovers but also for sailors.
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.jpg "Escape of H.M.S. Calliope From Apia Harbour Samoa, on the 16th of March 1889 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Dawn after a Storm by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Sea-Beach after a Storm - Time, Dawn by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The First Battle Squadron leaving the Forth for the Battle of Jutland, 1917 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Home Again, c.1880 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The last of the")
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.jpg "Bombarding the Narrows, 18 March 1915, from Cassell")
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.jpg "Crippled but unconquered: The")
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.jpg "Barges on the Medway by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Battleships of the White Era at sea, 1915 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "1st Battle Squadron of Dreadnoughts Steaming down the Channel by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Last Voyage of")
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.jpg "Blake")
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.jpg "The End of the")
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.jpg "Entrance to Barry Dock, South Wales by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Blake and Tromp-period of the Dutch Wars by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "A Continental Harbour by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_with_Tower_Bridge_in_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501758).jpg "Activity Scene Along Irongate Quay, on the Thames (England), with Tower Bridge in the Distance by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1511454).jpg "Sketch of Merchant Ships in Port, Late 19th to Early 20th Century by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Family Disembarking at Low Water by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-393174).jpg "Portel Fisher Folk by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Launch of the Life Boat by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1505002).jpg "Davy Jones")
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.jpg "Portsmouth Harbour 1912, 1915 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Diamond Jubilee Review of 1897 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Dawn After the Storm by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Docking a Cargo Ship by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324510).jpg "Study for The Sea-Beach after a Storm by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Phantom Ship by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_on_the_Thames_at_sunset_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1498600).jpg "View of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, on the Thames, at Sunset, Taken from Blackwall by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Harvesting the Land and the Sea by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Phantom Ship by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Unloading Coal into Barges by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Trafalgar Anniversary by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Battle of Sluys 1340 AD by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Fishing Boats Setting Out from Portel, 1872 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Study of an A-class submarine under way, possibly in Portsmouth Harbour, early 20th century by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_(Turkey)_during_the_Gallipoli_campaign_in_t_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503314).jpg "The Battle of the Dardanelles (1915), during the Gallipoli campaign, in the Sea of Marmara by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "A Whole Gale of Wind by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Greenwich Hospital by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Surrendered German Battleships in the Firth of Forth by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130458).jpg "A Friend of all Nations by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Second Cruiser Squadron by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_(France)_with_turbulent_seas_and_char_-_(MeisterDrucke-1502872).jpg "The Beach of Berck-sur-Mer, with Turbulent Seas and Characters on the Beach by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "This view looks up the harbour on the Gosport side where a submarine is running in, with another ahead of it. by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Boats at Sea, 1885 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Boulogne by the Sea by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The")
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_after_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503832).jpg "The restoration of HMS")
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_maneuvers_again_-_(MeisterDrucke-1499430).jpg "The Frigate")
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.jpg "Study of the Former German Battleship")
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.jpg "Sunset by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Figures on the Banks of an Estuary by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Towards Sunset, Boulogne Sands by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Coal pickers on board a boat, lifting the coal cargo from the cargo hold using a pulley system by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Toil, Glitter, Glime and Wealth, 1883-1935 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Sunset Storm by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-901777).jpg "Sunset on the Thames by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Ras-el-tin by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Battle of Trafalgar 1805 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "A surrendered and beached submarine, Portsmouth by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_with_the_names_of_the_crewmen_i_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503146).jpg "On board the German imperial yacht")
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.jpg "The Lifeboat by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Masters of the Seas by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Submarine J.5 and Rough Sketch of Another Fighting Vessel by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Barry Docks by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Towing Past The City by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Battle of Jutland by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Shrimpers by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Gathering Driftwood, Holland by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1116700).jpg "Barges at Sunset by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1507337).jpg "Mouth of the Kelvin by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Battle of Trafalgar, at 14:30 p.m. on October 21 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_in_1850_Drawing_and_watercolor_(655x79_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503776).jpg "Plan of the Portsmouth Shipyard (England) in 1850 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_Watercolor_-_(MeisterDrucke-1498599).jpg "Thames Houseboat, England by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Homeward Bound by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_a_triangular_entrance_to_the_Nort_-_(MeisterDrucke-1501923).jpg "HMS")
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.jpg "The Golden Horn by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1503964).jpg "Point House Shipyard by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Convoy, The North Sea by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1130464).jpg "Liberty Men by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1326263).jpg "Shrimpers Hauling to Windward by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Crippled but Unconquered: H.M.S.")
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_Gouache_taken_from_a_notebook_circa_1890_by_-_(MeisterDrucke-1498954).jpg "Thames houseboats studies, circa 1890 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The HMS")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1502678).jpg "Submarine D7, Early 20th Century by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Channel Fleet off Scarborough by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Ship")
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.jpg "Blake")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-903056).jpg "HMS Warspite by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "London Bridge, Cannon Street and Billingsgate by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Portel Sands by William Lionel Wyllie")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128233).jpg "Eclipse Party Leaving H.M.S. Theseus, Santa Pola by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Santa Claus, coming down through a chimney, pulling a bag full of toys and a Christmas tree. Watercolor, early 20th century, by William Lionel Wyllie by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "HMS")
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.jpg "The Regatta at Kiel by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Looking West from Wimereux by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "Evening over the City by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "The Pool of London, late 19th-early 20th Century, c1930 by William Lionel Wyllie")
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.jpg "A man and a boy aboard a small sailing boat by William Lionel Wyllie")
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