The Last Judgment
(1536)
Michelangelo
(Florence, Italy, 1475 - 1564)
Matthew 25:31-46
1829 - 1891
Bath, England
Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of James Long, a hairdresser, (from Kelston in Somerset), and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British Museum. He was subsequently a pupil in the school of James Mathews Leigh in Newman Street London, and practised first as a portrait artist painting Charles Greville, Lord Ebury and others.