James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902), although a French national, spent most of his working life in England and his paintings are wonderful depictions of life in Victorian England.
A Little Nimrod (ca. 1882)
A Woman of Ambition (1883-85)
At the Window
[doesn't it look like this young lady is talking on a cell phone?]
Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby (1870)
During the Service (Martin Luther's Doubts) (1860)
Emigrants (ca. 1873)
Faust and Marguerite in the Garden (1861)
A Fete Day at Brighton (1875-78)
About the next painting, Laura Cumming, in
an article on an exhibition of "Art in the Age of Steam," has this to say:
But the single clinching image of this new sense of time and motion is
James Tissot's Gentleman in a Railway Carriage, in which a prosperous,
fur-collared gent holds fast to a strap as the train rushes on, the view
through the window a blur. On his knee is an open timetable, in his
hand a fob watch and he flashes the viewer a knowing look as if we were
also checking progress. Halfway between portrait and archetype, this is
the very essence, as a contemporary critic put it, 'of
Nineteenth-Century Man'.
Gentleman in a Railway Carriage (1872)
Goodbye on the Mersey (1881)
