Monday, July 8, 2013

A Group of Georges

 George Baxter: The Arrival of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria 
at the House of Lords to Open Her First Parliament

 George Gregory: Evening off the Harbour Mouth (1876)
 
 George Hardy: Early Teaching
 
 George Henry Grenville Manton: Isabella and the Pot of Basil
 
 George Henry Grenville Manton: The Wife of Jeroboam and the Blind Prophet (1888)
 
 George Jones: Godiva Preparing to Ride through Coventry (1833)
 
 George Jones: The Passing of the Great Emancipation Act (ca. 1829)
 
George Jones: Utrecht (1829)

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Ambrosini Jérôme

Ambrosini Jérôme was the pseudonym of James Parker (1810-1883). Most of his pictures are signed Ambrosini Jérôme or A. Jérôme as he found an Italian sounding name was better for business in the mid-19th century.

 Queen Mary of Scotland meets Marie (1849)
 
 Rubens Presenting His Picture 'Peace and War' to Charles I
 
 Seated Female Nude

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Eyre Crowe

Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) was a painter of historical and genre scenes.

 A Sheep-Shearing Match (1875)
 
 Jeremiah Horrocks making the first observation of a transit of Venus in 1639
 
Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia (1861)
[His most famous painting. Slavery had been abolished in England in 1833, 
but Crowe visited with USA in the 1850s and saw slavery first-hand.
He was appalled at what he saw, and painted this as a response.]

Friday, July 5, 2013

Thomas Kent Pelham

Thomas Kent Pelham (ca. 1831-1907) was an English genre painter.

 A Little Maid of Alicante
 
 A Minstrel of the Basque Provinces
 
 A Mountain Lassie
 
 At the Cottage Door
 
 Sicilian Girls
 
 Spanish Girl
 
 The Flower Girl
 
 The Gypsies
 
 The Mussel Gatherer
 
 The Spanish Musician
 
 Venetian Balcony Scene
 
Water Carrier of Valencia

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Henry Gillard Glindoni

Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913) was a painter of genre and historical scenes.

 A New Sign for an Old Score (1877)
 
 Frost Fair, 1684 (1900)
 
 John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I
 
 Love's Messenger (1904)
 
 The Attack (1880)
 
 The Bride of Lammermoor (1885)
 
 The Tiff
 
To Be or Not to Be (1902)

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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)