Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Genre Scenes

Here are some genre paintings from Victorian England.

 A. Erwood: The First Place (1860)

 Alfred Rankley: Old Schoolfellows (1854)

 Alfred Rankley: The Village School (1855)

 Augustus Leopold Egg: A Teasing Riddle

 Benjamin West Clinedinst: Man with his Dog before a Hearth (1884)

 Charles Green: Her First Bouquet (1868)

 Charles Green: News from the War (1867)

 Charles Haigh-Wood: Two Strings to her Bow

Charles James Lewis: Mother and Child

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

 Amaryllis (The Shepherdess) (1884)

 Bianca (1869)

 Claudio and Isabella (1850)
[a scene from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure]

 Eve of Saint Agnes (1848)

 Fairlight Downs, Sunlight on the Sea (1852-58)

 John Ruskin's Dead Chick

 May Morning on Magdalen Tower (1891)

 Morning Prayer (1866)

 Our English Coasts (Strayed Sheep) (1852)

 Portrait of Fanny Holman Hunt (1868)

Monday, August 13, 2012

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ctd

 A Disaster at Sea (ca. 1835)

 Abergavenny Bridge, Monmountshire, Clearing up after a showery day

 Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (ca. 1798)

 Battle of Trafalgar (1823-24)

 Brighton from the Sea (ca. 1829)

 Brunnen, from the Lake of Lucerne (1845)

 Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower (ca. 1798)

 Calais Pier (1803)

Cliveden on Thames (ca. 1807)

Departure of the Fleet (ca. 1850)

Friday, August 10, 2012

Helen Allingham, ctd

A Berkshire Cottage

 Bubbles

 Buckinghamshire House at Penstreet

 Cat's Cradle

 Cottage With Sunflowers at Peaslake

 Cottage at Pinner

 Cottage at Roundhurst, Sussex (ca. 1892)

 Cottage, Wormley Wood (1886?)

 East Hagbourne, Berkshire

 Entering a Cottage

Garden at Hambledon

Thursday, August 9, 2012

William Dyce

William Dyce (1804-1864) was a Scottish painter.

 Highland Ferryman (1858)

 Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of the Sea (1847)
[a bit of Victorian jingoism]

 Omnia Vanitas (1848)

 Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 (1858-60)

 Saint John Leading Home His Adopted Mother (1844-60)

 Scene in Arran (1859)

 The Good Shepherd

 The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel (1853)

 Titian's First Painting

Welsh Landscape with Two Women Knitting (1860)