F.S. Cary’s Academy; Royal Academy (RA) Schools (London); with Charles Gleyre (Paris); Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris)
1856 – exhibits Death of Chatterton at RA; praised by John Ruskin
1858 – exhibits The Stonebreaker at RA
1860s – exhibits at Hogarth Club (London) with Pre-Raphaelite artists
1877 – stops exhibiting at RA
1880 – elected member of Old Water-Colour Society
1880s-1910s – publishes series of books and articles about Italian and Egyptian ceramics illustrated with his own drawings; Wallis’s collection of ceramics is now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (London)
Paris (1840s-50s); travel throughout Europe and the Near East
Death of Chatterton, 1856 (Tate, London)
Barringer, T. Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2005