Madeline by moonlight: an illustration to Keat's 'Eve of St. Agnes'

A Cornish painter, Riley Wilmer studied art locally and mixed with artists including Thomas Cooper Gotch and Henry Scott Tuke. The Romantic Poets were a favourite inspiration, whose writings his work tended to reflect. Burne-Jones was also a profound influence, and his 1905 Royal Academy exhibit, A Dream of the Sorrowful Way, was declared 'the artistic surprise of the year'. His work is represented in the Falmouth Art Gallery.