Valentine Walter Bromley

Valentine Walter Bromley (February 14, 1848 - April 30, 1877) was a British artist. He was born into a well-known family of artists: his grandfather, William Bromley the Younger (1769-1842), was a tint-engraver and an Associate of the Royal Academy; his great-grandfather, William Bromley the Elder, also an engraver.

Troilus and Cressida in Pandarus' orchard.

Valentine Bromley received his art education from his father, William Bromley (III), a member of the Institute of British Artists. At the age of nineteen, he became an Associate of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours.

A frequent art correspondent for The Illustrated London News, Bromley also worked as a book-illustrator; among other works, he illustrated Lord Dunraven's 'Great Divide'.

Bromley died unexpectedly at the age of twenty-nine at Fallows Green, Harpenden, after undertaking an important series of illustrations of the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bromley, Valentine Walter". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.