Showing posts with label Henry Moore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Moore. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Maritime Painting

Because Britain was the world's pre-eminent maritime power in the 19th century, it was natural for maritime art to be a popular genre of painting.

 Colin Hunter (1841-1904): Hauling in the Nets at Sunset
  
 David James (1853-1904): Low Tide, the Cornish Coast (1887)
  
 Edwin Hayes (1819-1904): After the Storm, the Irish Coast (1871)
  
 George Clarkson Stanfield (1828-1878): The Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805
  
 Henry King Taylor (1799-1868): Shipping in a Heavy Swell in the Channel off Dover
  
 Henry King Taylor: View of St. Aubin's Fort, St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey
  
 Henry Moore (1831-1895): Light Airs at Sunset (1870-73)
  
 Henry Redmore (1820-1888): Luggers and other commercial traffic in a calm off Whitby (1871)
  
John Scougall: On the Thames at Westminster

Thursday, March 28, 2013

A Heap of Henrys

 Henry Collen: Queen Victoria, when Princess Victoria (1836)

 Henry Charles Fox: Lane at Ringwood, Hampshire

 Henry Charles Fox: Shepherdess with Her Flock on a Country Road (1904)

 Henry Holiday: The Duet (Portrait of Alexandra and Winifred)

 Henry Jamyn Brooks: Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy (1888)

 Henry Dawson: Plymouth from the River

 Henry John Boddington: Cattle Watering in the Shadow of Windsor Castle (ca. 1850)

 Henry Perlee Parker: Pitmen Playing Quoits (1840)
[British vocabulary note: "pitmen" = miners]

Henry Moore: Outward Bound