Henry Ryland was a British book illustrator, decorator, designer (including of stained glass), and painter. He was best known for his watercolours showing beautiful women wearing costumes from Ancient Greece of Medieval Europe. Unusually for the time, they were not nudes.
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He was inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as the Arts and Crafts movement.
Ryland was born in Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK, studied at the Royal College of Art in London and later at the Académie Julian in Paris.
