Showing posts with label Valentine Cameron Prinsep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine Cameron Prinsep. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Christian Mary Wilbee: A Waif from the Sea
  
 Cuthbert Brodrick: Interior Perspective, Leeds Town Hall (1854)
  
 Daniel Pasmore: A Cavalier in Love, a Toast to Beauty
  
 David Fulton: Fishing for Tiddlers (1889)
  
 David Wilkie Wynfield: An Incident in the Life of Queen Elizabeth
[interesting touch: the lady-in-waiting at left holding Elizabeth's wig]
  
 Delapoer Downing: The End of a Weary Day
  
 Denis Dighton: The Fall of Nelson
  
 Valentine Cameron Prinsep: At the First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away
  
Winifred Sandys: The White Mayde of Avenel

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

 Medea the Sorceress (1880)
 
 Mrs Oliver Ormerod Walker, née Jane Harrison (ca. 1860)
 
 My Lady Betty (ca. 1864)
 
 Portrait of Lillie Langtry (1879)
[she was really famous in her day]
 
 Promenade through the Honeysuckle
  
 Queen Victoria (1887)
 
 The Flower Seller
  
 The Gamekeeper's Daughter (1875)
 
 The Goose Girl (1900)
 
 The Handmaidens of Sivawara Preparing the Sacred Bull at Tanjore for a Festival
  
 The Mandolin Player
  
 The Queen was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey (1860)
 
Unprofessional Beauty (1885)

Friday, July 12, 2013

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter.  One of his aunts, Julia Margaret Cameron, was a pioneering British photographer, while his other aunt, Maria Jackson, was the grandmother of Virginia Woolf. 

 A Venetian Gaming-House in the Sixteenth Century
 
 A Water Carrier
 
 Ayesha (1887)
 
 Bathing in the Ganges
 
 Carmen
 
 Cinderella
 
 Death of Siward the Strong
 
 For the Bread of the Needy is Their Life
 
 In a Street in Venice
 
 La Revolution
 
 Lady Frances Layland-Barratt
 
Leonora of Mantua