科利尔是从一个有才华和成功的家庭。他的祖父约翰·科利尔，是贵格会的商人谁成为国会议员。他的父亲（谁是国会议员，总检察长和，多年来，有专职枢密院法官）创建的第一个主Monkswell。他也是成员英国艺术家皇家学会。约翰·科利尔的哥哥，第二主Monkswell，是国家的副秘书长战争和主席伦敦郡议会。

在适当的时候，运煤船成为了家庭中不可或缺的一部分托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎 PC的总统皇家学会于1883年至1885年科利尔结婚了赫胥黎的女儿和正在“亲密友谊的条款”与他的儿子，作家伦纳德赫胥黎。科利尔的第一任妻子于1879年，是玛丽安（马迪）赫胥黎。她是谁研究，喜欢她的丈夫，在一个画家斯莱德，并陈列在英国皇家学院和其他地方。他们唯一的孩子出生后，一个女儿，她遭受了严重的产后抑郁症，被送到巴黎接受治疗的地方，但是，她染上了肺炎，并通过他的第一次婚姻，乔伊斯于1887年Collier的女儿死了，是一个纵向细密和微型画家的英国皇家学会的会员。

1889年科利尔结婚马迪的妹妹埃塞尔赫胥黎。直到亡妻的妹妹的婚姻行动1907年这样的婚姻在英国是不可能的，所以仪式在挪威。他的第二任妻子，他有一个女儿和一个儿子，爵士劳伦斯·科利尔，谁是英国驻挪威大使1941年至1951年。
 

十六的约翰·科利尔的画现在在的馆藏国家肖像画廊在伦敦和2都在泰特美术馆。国家肖像画廊的绘画4人1997年12月上显示：约翰·伯恩斯，威廉·哈金斯先生，托马斯·赫胥黎（艺术家的岳父）和查尔斯·达尔文（最后两个副本也被突出在楼梯的顶部显示在雅典娜俱乐部在伦敦）。

1907年自画像一直保存在乌菲齐佛罗伦萨这大概是委托它作为著名的艺术家的自画像收藏的一部分。

其他的照片可以看出在向公众开放的房屋和机构：杀人犯克吕泰大和醒目的画是在市政厅画廊的伦敦城。在'死刑'是由艺术家的遗孀给伍尔弗汉普顿美术馆。他的画像昂斯洛伯爵（1903年），是克兰登公园，萨里（国民信托）。他爵士全长肖像查尔斯特尔蒂乌斯曼德，第一男爵，在Owlpen庄园，格洛斯特郡，与国民信托在集合中的另一个版本怀特威克庄园。

许多人的复制品，各种收藏品，可在国家肖像画廊亨氏档案和图书馆的约翰·科利尔箱咨询，和一个非常好的选择是发表在议员约翰·科利尔的艺术由WH·波洛克（1914）。他的作品也被列入安装了伟大的维多利亚女王时代的照片展艺术委员会于1978年。

Collier is from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, is a Quaker businessman who became a member of parliament. His father (who was a member of Congress, the attorney general and, over the years, a full-time judge first lord Privy Council) created by Monkswell. He is also a member of the Royal Society of British artists. John Collier's brother, the second Lord Monkswell, is the country's deputy secretary general for war and the president of the London County council.
When appropriate, collier family has become an indispensable part of the Royal Society president Thomas Henry Hexley PC married the daughter of Huxley and is "intimate friendship clause" from 1883 to 1885 and his son Collier, writer Leonard Huxley. Collier's first wife, in 1879, was Marianne (Ma Di) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. She is a researcher who likes her husband in a painter Slade, and is displayed at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. They only after the birth of a child, a daughter, she suffered severe postpartum depression, was sent to Paris for treatment, however, she contracted pneumonia, and by his first marriage, Joyce in 1887 Collier's daughter is dead, is a longitudinal fine and miniature painter of the Royal Society membership.
Collier married Di Di's sister, Ethel, and her sister, the younger sister of the year of the year 1889. Until the death of his sister's marriage act in 1907 such a marriage in the UK is not possible, so the ceremony in Norway. His second wife, he has a daughter and a son, sir Lawrence Collier, who was the British ambassador to Norway from 1941 to 1951.
Sixteen of John Collier's paintings are now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London and 2 in the Tate gallery. According to the National Portrait Gallery painting 4 December 1997: John Burns, Mr. William Huggins, Thomas Hexley (artist's father-in-law) and Charles Darwin (the last two copies were also highlighted in the Athenaeum club in London at the top of the stairs).
1907 self portrait has been preserved in the Uffizi in Florence this is probably a part of it as commissioned by the famous artist's self portrait collection.
Other photos can be seen in the open to the public houses and institutions: the murder of the big and the big picture is the city hall gallery in the city of london. In the 'death' was made by the artist's widow to the Wolverhampton Museum of art. His portrait of Earl of Onslow (1903), is the Crandon Park, Surrey (National Trust). Sir Charles ter Siti Mander, his full-length portrait, the first Baron, in Gloucestershire, Owlpen manor, and the National Trust in the collection of another version of White's manor.
Copy, many people in all kinds of collectibles, John Collier box consulting National Portrait Gallery Heinz archives and library, and a very good option is published in Senator John Collier's art by WH Pollock (1914). His work has also been included in the installation of the great Queen Victoria era Photo Exhibition Arts Council in 1978.