was an English portrait painter steeped in Academic Classicism and Romanticism.Wontner was born in Stockwell, Surrey, the son of the architect, designer and renderer William Hoff Wontner and Catherine Smith. Wontner received his earliest art education from his father. Under his father’s direction, he worked with John William Godward (1861–1922), a noted exponent of what became known as Greco-Roman style, who was an acquaintance of the Wontner family. Godward was five years older than Wontner, and the pair became great friends. His style favoured seductively languorous women against classical or oriental marbled backdrops. His faithfully rendered fabrics draped over patently European models somehow created an air of Orientalism.
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