Friday, July 27, 2012

Some British Landscapes

 All by guys named John...

 John Knox: View of Glencoe

 John Linnell: Homeward Bound (1861)

 John Linnell: The Last Load (1853)

 John Linnell: The Sandpits (1856)

 John MacWhirter: A Lonely Birch

 John MacWhirter: June in the Austrian Tyrol (1892)

 John MacWhirter: Mount Etna from the Greek Theatre, Taormina (1890)

 John MacWhirter: Sunset on the Isle of Skye (1875)

 John Syer: Figures by a Tumbling Stream

John Syer: Welsh Drovers (1878)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sir Joseph Noel Paton

Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901) was a Scottish artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.

 Caliban (1868)
[from The Tempest, natch!]

 Dionysus and the Sea Nymphs (1853)

 Hesperus, the Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers (1857)

 'Home': the Return from the Crimea (1859)

 "I Wonder Who Lived In There"

In Memoriam (1858)

 The Fairy Raid: Carrying off a Changeling, Midsummer Eve (1867)

 The Bluidie Tryste (1855)

 The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania (1849)

The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania (1847)

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Arthur Hughes

Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter.

 A Music Party (1864)
 
 A Visit to Grandmother
 
 Asleep in the Woods
 
 Ellen Dana Conway (1873)
 
 Gleaning
 
 Home from the Sea (1862)
  
 Old Neighbour Gone Bye
 
 Overthrowing of the Rusty Knight (ca. 1894)
 
 Silver and Gold (1863)
 
 That was a Piedmontese (1862)
 
 The Pained Heart (also known as 'Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more') (1867-72)
  
The Property Room (1879)

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was a Dutch-born British painter. He was probably the top Victorian Classicist painter, specializing in historical genre scenes, particularly of Imperial Rome.

 A Birth Chamber, Seventeenth Century (1868)

 A Favourite Custom (1909)

 A Greek Woman (1869)

 A Private Celebration (1871)

 A Sculpture Gallery (1867)

 Always Welcome (1887)

 An Oleander (1882)

Ask Me No More (1906)

Monday, July 23, 2012

Benjamin Leader

Benjamin Leader (1831-1923) was perhaps the most prominent English landscape painter of the 19th century. His work was heavily influenced by John Constable.

A Beech Wood (1859)

 A Fine Autumn Morning (1914)

 A Fisherman's Haunt (1864)

 A Moated Grange (1868)

 A Welsh Churchyard (1863)

 A Welsh Cornfield (1862)

A Woodland Pool (1915)

 A Worcestershire Lane

 At Evening Time It Shall be Light (1897)

Autumn's Last Gleam (ca. 1865)