Thursday, December 20, 2012

Thomas Benjamin Kennington

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) was an English genre and portrait painter.

 A Merry Heart Goes a Long Way (1912)

 Chatterboxes (1912)

 Contemplation (ca. 1900)

 Lady Reading by a Window

 Orphans (1885)

 Polishing the Brass

 Reading the Letter (also called The Love Letter)

The Wedding Dress (1889)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Briton Rivière, ctd

 Aggravation (1896)

 Play Fellows (1900)

 Sympathy (1877)

 The Long Sleep (1868)

 The Miracle of the Gaderene Swine (1883)
[about the Gadarene Swine]

 The Old Gardener (1863)

 Tick-Tack (1881)

 Una and the Lion
[depicting a story from the Fairie Queene]
 War Time (1874)

Requiescat (1888)

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

George Goodwin Kilburne, ctd

 Governess with Two Girls (1873)

 Piano Practice

 Poor Relations (1875)

 Pretty Polly

 Renunciation

 The Heir (1890)

 The New Arrangement

 The New Book (1870)

 The Next Dance

 The Nursemaid

The Piano Lesson (1871)

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