Showing posts with label Augustus Leopold Egg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Augustus Leopold Egg. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

Augustus Leopold Egg

Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863) was a Victorian painter of genre and historical scenes. He seems to have had a fondness for depicting scenes from Shakespeare.

 Charles I Raising his Standard at Nottingham (1852)
 
Contemplation
 
 Desdemona
 
 Feria at Seville (1848-60)
 
 Girl Making a Bouquet of Flowers (1849)
 
 Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog (1849)
 
 Portrait of the artist William Powell Frith (1850)
 
 Queen Elizabeth Discovers she is no longer Young (1848)
  
 Scene from 'The Devil upon Two Sticks' (1844)
 
 Scene from 'The Winter's Tale' (1845)
  
 
 The Life of Buckingham (1855)
 
 The Death of Buckingham (1855)
 
The Dinner Scene from 'Taming of the Shrew' (1860)
 
 The Love Letter
 
 The Opera Mantle (1851)
 
 The Toilet
 
 The Traveling Companions (1862)

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Genre Scenes

Here are some genre paintings from Victorian England.

 A. Erwood: The First Place (1860)

 Alfred Rankley: Old Schoolfellows (1854)

 Alfred Rankley: The Village School (1855)

 Augustus Leopold Egg: A Teasing Riddle

 Benjamin West Clinedinst: Man with his Dog before a Hearth (1884)

 Charles Green: Her First Bouquet (1868)

 Charles Green: News from the War (1867)

 Charles Haigh-Wood: Two Strings to her Bow

Charles James Lewis: Mother and Child