Oliver Ingraham Lay (c. 1845-1890), was an American portrait painter.
Lay received his earliest art education in the United States. He traveled to Europe in 1860 he returned to the United States and began his professional career as an artist. There was a regular exhibitor Century Association and the National Academy of Design.
Died June 28, 1890, in Stratford, Connecticut. He was buried at the New York Cemetery Cedar Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum.
He was married to Hester Marian Wait Lay (1845-1900), they had a son - Charles Lay (1877-1956) - American architect.
His works are in museum collections in the United States and England, including the National Academy of Design, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Gallery of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England).
Ford Madox Brown was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work (1852–1865). Brown spent the latter years of his life painting the twelve works known as The Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, for Manchester Town Hall.
Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, and Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French Navy at the Battle of the Nile later that year. Napoleon took a scientific expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the Description de l'Égypte, began in 1809 and was published as a series through 1826. The size and monumentality of the façades discovered during his adventure cemented the hold of Egyptian aesthetics on the Parisian elite. However, works of art and architecture in the Egyptian style had been made or built occasionally on the European continent since the time of the Renaissance.
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