Monday, December 17, 2012

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ctd

 Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)

 Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, accompanied by La Fornarina, 
Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia (1820)

 Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge (1843)

 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Burning Fiery Furnace (1832)

 The Angel Standing in the Sun (1846)

 The Death of Actaeon, with a Distant View of Montjovet, Val d'Aosta (ca. 1837)

 The Golden Bough (1834)

 The Harbour of Brest, The Quayside and Château (ca. 1826-28)

 The Scarlet Sunset (ca. 1830-40)
[this looks like it could have been painted by Monet]

Vision of Medea (1828)

Friday, December 14, 2012

William Etty

William Etty (1787-1849) was best known for his paintings of nudes (one of the few English painters of his era to specialize in this particular subject).

 Bather Turned to the Right

 Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret (1833)
[depicting an incident from The Fairie Queene]

 Daydreams

 Hero, Having Thrown herself from the Tower 
at the Sight of Leander Drowned, Dies on his Body (1829)

 Louisa Vaughan

 Miss Mary Arabella Jay (1819)

 Musidora, The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (ca. 1846)

 Seated Female Nude

 Standing Female Nude (ca. 1835-40)

 Standing Female Nude with Helmet (ca. 1835-40)

Study of a female nude, from behind

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Charles Hunt

Charles Hunt (1823-1900) was an English genre painter.


 Children Acting the ‘Play Scene’ from “Hamlet,” Act II, Scene ii (1863)

 Cinderella

 Paddy's Darling (1889)

 Paddy's Wedding

 The Card Players (1891)

 The Love Letter

 The Peace Maker

 The Prisoner

 The Rival

 The Soldier's Departure (1868)

Vocal and Instrumental (1858)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Louise Rayner, ctd

 Bootham Bar, York

 Durham Cathedral from Framwellgate Bridge

 Edinburgh, The Grassmarket, with Half Moon Battery in the distance

 Edinburgh

 Figures in an Edinburgh Courtyard

 Head of the West Bow, Edinburgh

 Herding Sheep past the Gateway to the Close, Salisbury

Interior at Haddon Hall

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Frank Cadogan Cowper

Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877-1958) was an English painter, described as the "Last of the Pre-Raphaelites". Although painting well into the 20th century, his work remained stylistically true to the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite vision.

 Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor (1920)

 La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1926)
[A favorite subject of Pre-Raphaelite painters. Based on the poem by Keats.]

 Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI (1908)

 Molly, Duchess of Nona (1905)

 Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth (1917)

 Saint Francis of Assisi and the Heavenly Melody

 St. Agnes in Prison Receiving from Heaven the 'Shining White Garment' (1905)

 The Blue Bird (1918)

 The Damsel of the Lake, Called Nimue the Enchantress (1924)

 Vanity (1907)

Lancelot slays the Caitiff Knight Sir Tarquin and rescues the fair lady and the knight in captivity

Monday, December 10, 2012

Alfred Pollentine

Alfred Pollentine (1836-1890) was an English painter specializing in scenes of Venice.

 Customs House, Venice

 Grand Canal, Venice

 The Ducal Palace, Venice

 The Grand Canal, Venice

 Venice, Santa Maria della Salute

Venice
 View of Dover Castle and Wellington Crescent, Dover, Kent (1888)

View of Venice (1885)