English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, ca.1829-1904
English painter, illustrator and draughtsman. He was the son of Anthony Sands (1804-83), a minor local artist. He began his artistic education with his father and attended the Norwich School of Design from 1846. His precocious talent was recognized by the award of silver medals by the Society of Arts in 1846 and 1847. He moved to London in 1851, when he first exhibited at the Royal Academy, but he continued to spend time at Norwich until the death of his parents in 1883. After publishing in 1857 A Nightmare, a gentle caricature of John Ruskin and his Pre-Raphaelite proteg's William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and based on Millais's Sir Isumbras at the Ford Related Paintings of Frederick Sandys :. | The Penitent St Jerome in a landscape | Sketches of Krishna playing a flute | Sacrament of Baptism | Floral, beautiful classical still life of flowers.103 | Georg im Kampf mit dem Drachen | Related Artists: James Walker American, 1819-1889 C. G. hellquist
