<P> Yeames was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a British consul based in Russia . After the death of his father in 1842, Yeames was sent to school in Dresden where he began studying painting . </P> <P> After a change in the fortunes of his family, they moved to London in 1848 . Yeames learnt anatomy and composition from George Scharf and took art lessons from F.A. Westmacott . In 1852 he journeyed to Florence where he studied with Enrico Pollastrini and Raphael Buonajuti . During his time there he painted at the Life School at the Grand Ducal Academy, drawing from frescoes by Andrea del Sarto, Ghirlandaio and Gozzoli . Continuing on to Rome, he painted landscape studies and copied Old Masters, including the frescoes of Raphael in the Vatican . </P> <P> Returning to London in 1859, he set up a studio in Park Place and, with Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Frederick Goodall and George Adolphus Storey, formed the loose association of artists known as the St John's Wood Clique . The group concentrated on subjects of a historical nature and narrative paintings in which the story was revealed by close study of the actions and expressions of the subjects . In Yeames's work this technique evolved into the genre known as the problem picture, in which the narrative of the image creates an unresolved dilemma or paradox for the viewer . </P> <P> In 1905 he painted a mural for the Royal Exchange, London The Foundation of St Paul's School, 1509 . </P>

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