Thursday, January 31, 2013

Charles Robert Leslie, ctd

 The Duchess of Sutherland in her Coronation Robes (1838 or 1839)

 The Dreamer

 The Last Throw (1840)

 Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman (1848)

 The Miniature

The Admonishment of Beatrice Cenci (1843)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

James Sant

James Sant (1820-1916) was a Victorian painter best known for his portraits.

 Miss Martineau's Garden (1873)

A Thorn Amidst Roses (1887)

 Feeding the Chicks

The Artist's Wife Elizabeth with their Daughter Mary Edith
 The Duet

 The Schoolmaster's Daughter (ca. 1870)

 The Fairy Tale (1845)

The First Sense of Sorrow

Monday, January 28, 2013

Robert Walker MacBeth

Robert Walker MacBeth (1848-1910) was a Scottish painter specializing in rural genre scenes.

 Osier Peeling on the Cam (1875)

 Lambing Time

 The Cast Shoe (1890)

 Our First Tiff (1878)

 The Nightingale's Song (1904)

Mother and Daughter on a Swing (Happy Times) (1895)

Friday, January 25, 2013

William McTaggart

William McTaggart (1835-1910) was a Scottish landscape painter.

 As Happy as the Day is Long (1880)

 Companions

 Puir Weans (1863)

 Spring (1864)

 The Emigrants (1883-89)

 Summer Sundown - Tir-nan-og (1880)

The Harvest Moon (ca. 1899)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908) was an English painter regarded as a "second-wave" Pre-Raphaelite. He was the uncle of the female Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.

 Andromeda
[The story of Andromeda from Greek mythology was a favorite subject of painters.]

Flora (1889)

 Robins of Modern Times (1857)

 The Temptation of Eve

 The White Rabbit
[so is that Alice?]

 The Waters of Lethe by the Plains of Elysium (1880)

Thoughts of the Past (1859)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

William Etty, ctd

 Study of a Female Nude

 The Fairy of the Fountain (1845)

 The Flower Girl (1830s)

 The Sirens and Ulysses (1837)

 The Ring (ca. 1835)

Venus and Cupid

 Venus and Her Satellites (Venus at Her Toilet)

 Venus and Cupid

 Woman at a Fountain (1840s)

 The Coral Finder - Venus and her Youthful Satellites (1820-48)

Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, 
One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed (1830)

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Sidney Richard Percy

Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886) was an English landscape painter who painted extensively in the Scottish Highlands and in Wales.

 Carn Dearg and Ben Nevis from Achintee (1874)

 Harvest Time

 Homeward Bound (1851)

 Llyn Idwall, North Wales

 Crossing a Stream in the Welsh Hills

 Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye (1874)

 Llyn-y-Ddinas, North Wales (1873)

 Near Ambleside, Westmorland

 On the Mawddach Marshes, North Wales (1877)

 Rest on the Roadside (1861)

 The Angler's Corner (1851)

 The Wye (1877)

 Road to Loch Turret (1868)

 Corn Stooks in a Mountainous Landscape

Loch Katrine