William Miles

Webster’s father was a member of George III’s household and wanted his son to become a musician - as a boy he sang in the Chapel Royal Choir. Following an introduction to Fuseli he became a student at the Royal Academy. A noted genre painter he was influenced by the Flemish school of the 17th century. In 1856 he moved to Cranbrook, Kent where he was a senior member of the Cranbrook Colony - a group of artists who lived and worked there every summer painting genre scene of everyday life.