Tuesday, October 16, 2012

George Vicat Cole

George Vicat Cole (1833-1893) was an English landscape painter. Thanks to Tim Barringer for corrections to mistaken attributions, as a result of which some paintings have been removed from this page.

Gathering Firewood (1860)

 Leaves are but the Wings on which the Summer Flies (1879)

 Near Borrowdale, Cumberland

 Richmond Hill, London (1875)

 The Hayrick (1886)

 The Hop Gardens (1862)

Watching the Flock
(copy of a work by George Vicat Cole)

Monday, October 15, 2012

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ctd

The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

 The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise (1841)

 The Bright Stone of Honor (Ehrenbrietstein) and the Tomb of Marceau (1835)
[from Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"]

 The Brunig Pass, from Meringen, Switzerland (1847-48)

 The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (1835)

 The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)

 The Devil's Bridge, St. Gothard (1803-04)

 The Evening Star (ca. 1830)

The Exile and the Snail
[There have been many depictions of Napoleon in art. 
I don't think any can match this one for sheer scornfulness.]

Friday, October 12, 2012

Ralph Hedley

Ralph Hedley (1848-1913) was a Victorian genre painter.

Barred Out (29th May) (1896)

 Going Home (1889)

 Last in Market (1885)

 Real Antique (1902)

 The Ballad Seller (1884)

 The Butter Churn (1897)

 The City Gate (1900)

 The New Scholar (1900-06)

 The Old China Shop (1877)

 The Sail Loft (1908)

 The Truant's Log (1899)

The Widow (1899)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Myles Birket Foster, ctd

 Storming the Castle

 Tea Time

 The Blackberry Gatherers

 The Bridge Near Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland

 The China Peddler

 The Country Inn

 The Farm Cart

 The Fish Market on the Steps of the Rialto Bridge

 The Ford

The Itinerant Fiddler

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Edward John Poynter

Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) was a Neoclassicist painter.

A Corner of the Villa (1894)

 Andromeda (1869)

 Cave of the Storm Nymphs (1903)

 Chloe, Dulces Docta Modos et Citharae Sciens (1893)

 Diadumenè (1884)

 Fishing, the Nymph of the Stream (1906)

 In a Garden (1891)

 Israel in Egypt (1867)

 Knuckle Bones (1891)

 On the Terrace (1903)

 The Violinist (1891)

The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1890)