Friday, November 16, 2012

William Bell Scott

William Bell Scott (1811-1890) was a Scottish painter and poet. He had some connections with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

 Ailsa Craig (1860)

 Albrecht Dürer on the Balcony of his House (1854)

 Building a Roman Wall (1856)

 Egfrith offering the Bishopric of Hexham to Cuthbert, 678
[illustration from Hutchinson's Story of the British Nation]
 
 Iron and Coal (1861)
[Scott's most famous painting. More about it here.]
 Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1860)
[Swinburne was a prominent Victorian poet.]

 Shelley's Grave in the New Protestant Cemetery in Rome (1873)
[Shelley, of course, being Percy Bysshe Shelley, another famous Victorian poet.]

 The Eve of the Deluge (1865)

 The Gloaming (Manse Garden in Berwickshire) (1863)

 The Little Water Carrier (1863)

The Nativity (1872)

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, ctd

 The Godhead Fires (1878)

 The Golden Stairs (1880)

 The Heart of the Rose (1889)

 The Lament (1866)

 The Merciful Knight (1863)

 The Mirror of Venus (1875)

 The Princess Sabra Being Led to the Dragon (1866)

 The Prioress' Tale

 The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon

The Sleeping Beauty (1890)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

George Goodwin Kilburne, ctd

 A Garden Stroll

 Fetching Water

 Forewarned is Forearmed

 Hounds Crossing a Stream (1905)

 In Church

 Minding Baby (1896)

 Mother and Child in a Picture Gallery

 Mother and Daughter

Peeling Apples

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A Collection of Charleses

 Charles Joseph Staniland: At the Back of the Church (1876)

 Charles Landseer: Cinderella

 Charles Landseer: Portrait of Children

 Charles Landseer: The Census of April the 8th, 1861

 Charles Leaver: Worcester from the Southwest

 Charles Lees: Skaters, a Scene on Duddingston Loch (1853)

 Charles Napier Hemy: Burnmouth, Berwickshire (1874)

Charles Napier Hemy: Ruins of a Northumbrian Keep (1864)

Charles Wynne Nicholls: A Victorian Family at the Seaside

Charles Wynne Nicholls: The Admirers

Monday, November 12, 2012

Edward Angelo Goodall

Edward Angelo Goodall (1819-1908) was an English painter who did most of his work in watercolor.

 A Smithy at Seville

 Absent Thoughts

 Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal

 Copper Market, Cairo (1871)

  Il Isola de San Giorgio Maggiore with il Santa Maria della Salute in the Distance

 The Church of St Giovanni e Paolo with the Statue of Colleoni

The Grand Canal, Venice

Friday, November 9, 2012

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ctd

 The Frigidarium (1890)

 The Parting Kiss (1882)

 The Sculpture Gallery (1867)

 The Soldier of Marathon

 The Tale from Homer (also called A Reading from Homer) (1885)

 The Tepidarium (1881)
[what is a tepidarium?]

 The Triumph of Titus (1885)

The Vintage Festival (1877)