John Maler Collier

John Collier - Priestess of Delphi (1891)

The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a leading English artist, and an author.

Collier's views on religion and ethics are interesting. Collier explains "It is mostly concerned with ethics apart from religion... I am looking forward to a time when ethics will have taken the place of religion (with religions he means Catholicism) Some of his words to the Church: "To me, as to most Englishmen, the triumph of Roman Catholicism would mean an unspeakable disaster to the cause of civilization."