Thursday, May 23, 2013

Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter and the niece of fellow Pre-Raphaelite John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.

 Boreas and Oreithyia (1896)
 By the Waters of Babylon (1882-83)

 Cadmus and Harmonia (1877)

 Cassandra (1898)

 Clytie (1886)

 Daughters of the Mist (1905-10)

 Luna

 Medea (1889)

 Port After Stormy Seas (1905)

 S.O.S. (1914-16)
[given the date, this would appear to be an allegorical treatment of World War I]

 The Garden of Opportunity (1892)

 The Gilded Cage (1905-10)

 The Kingdom of Heaven Suffereth Violence

The Sea Maidens (1885-86)

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

John Arthur Lomax

John Arthur Lomax (1857-1923) was a genre painter who specialized in nostalgia (his paintings were usually set a century earlier than his time). 

 A Favourite Author

 Dawn (1890-1910)

 Enough! (1890-1910)

 In the Library

 Over the Border

 Run to Earth

The Fisherman's Tale

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Sir Hubert von Herkomer

Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) was a British painter of German extraction. He seems to have been a versatile fellow: at ARC he is described as a "painter, printmaker, engraver, etcher, playwright, enamellist, actor, composer, film director, zitherist & pianist".

 A Weary Way (1891)

A Young Girl and Her Dog (1910)

Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union (1878)

Hard Times (1885)

Immer wird's schlimmer und besserwird's nimmer (1877)
[this translates roughly as "it's always getting worse and never better"]

Miss May Miles (1878)

On Strike (1891)

Our Village Nurse

Portrait of Mandell Creighton (1902)
[He was a historian and a bishop of the Church of England.]

Portrait of Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1892)

Sir Henry Tate (1897)
perhaps best noted for establishing the Tate Gallery in London.]

The Cornfield (1887)

The Last Muster (1875)

Young Farm Girls Breaking Flax (1885)

Monday, May 20, 2013

William Henry...

 William Henry Hamilton Trood: Pups' Slumber (1890)

 William Henry Knight: Knuckle Down (1857)

 William Henry Knight: Rivals to Blondin (1862)
[Charles Blondin was a French acrobat and tightrope walker.]

 William Henry Knight: Hide and Seek (1860)

 William Henry Knight: The Broken Window (1855)

 William Henry Knight: The Last Change

 William Henry Knight: The Young Artist (1861)

 William Henry Knight: The Youngest Child

 William Henry Midwood: In Disgrace (1871)

 William Henry Midwood: Rustic Courtship
[doesn't look like she's buying it]
 
 William Henry Midwood: The Music Lesson

William Henry Midwood: The Potter

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Heywood Hardy

Heywood Hardy (1842-1933) was an English painter of rural sporting scenes and the life of the country gentry. His father, James Hardy, was a respected landscape artist.

 A Meeting by the Stile

 A Ride by the Sea

 Changing Horses

 Changing the Horses

 Colonel And Mrs Wyndham Murray

 Corn Stooks by Bray Church (1872)

 Hacking to the Meet

 Hounds First, Gentlemen, Hounds First

 Lady and Gentleman on Horseback by a Blacksmith's Forge

 Noonday, Taking a Horse to Water (1877)

 Off to the Market (1908)

 On the Road to Gretna Green

 Pleasant Company (1906)

 Poverty and Privilege

The Aviary