Samuel Edward Waller (1850-1903) was a highly skilled painter of genre and historical scenes. His paintings depict complicated stories, the exact nature of which is not always immediately apparent (to the modern eye, anyway - perhaps Victorian viewers immediately knew what was going on).
Courtship (1901)
Success (1881)
Sweethearts and Wives (1882)
[this appears to depict an incident from the English Civil War]
The Challenge (1887)
