J is for John

 John Pettie: Hunted Down (1877)

  

 John Thomas Peele: The Young Scholar (1871)

  

 John Thomas Peele: The Young Water Carrier (1854)

  

 John Watkins Chapman: The Old Curiosity Shop

  

 John Watson Nicol: Lochaber No More

  

 John Wells Smith: Playtime

  

 John White: A Cornfield

  

 John William Haynes: Military Preparations

  

John William Hennessey: The Votive Offering

John Pettie

John Pettie (1839-1893) was a Scottish painter who spent most of his career in England. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1866 and a full academician in 1874. 

 An Arrest for Witchcraft in the Olden Time (1886)

 

 Bonnie Prince Charlie (1892)

[there are literally hundreds of songs about this guy]

 

 Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1889)

[this guy is better known as H. Rider Haggard, author of 

Victorian adventure novels, the best known of which is She]

 

 The Proposal (1869)

 

 The Scene in the Temple Garden from Henry VI, Part 1 (1871; engraving 1874)

[a depiction of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses]

 

The Vigil (1884)

 

 Two Strings To Her Bow (1882)