Wednesday, March 13, 2013

John Haynes-Williams

John Haynes-Williams (1836-1908) was an English genre painter.

 Ars Longa, Vita Brevis (1877)

 Binding a Shoe

 Roman Interior with Figures (1901)

 Taking Aim

 Spanish Musicians (1873)

 The Introduction

 The Spanish Fan

The Ancestor (1877)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

William Frederick Yeames

William Frederick Yeames (1835-1918) was an English painter specializing in historical scenes.

 A Visit to the Haunted Chamber (1869)

 An Appeal to the Podesta (1874)

 Amy Robsart (1877)

 Defendant and Counsel (1895)

 And when did you last see your father? (1878)

 For the Poor

 Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester (1865)

The Jacobites Escape the Punch Room at Cotehele House, Cornwall (1868-74)

Monday, March 11, 2013

John Bagnold Burgess

John Bagnold Burgess (1829-1897) was best known for his genre paintings and portraits set in Spain.

 A Spanish Beauty on a Balcony

 An Irritable Appeal (1877)

 A Spanish Beauty in a Red and Black Lace Shawl (1892)

 Admirers (1876)

 English Ladies Visiting a Moor's House (The Meeting of East and West)

 Licensing the Beggars in Spain (1877)

 Good News and Bad News (1876)

 The Church Door (1889)

 The Favourite Priest (1880)

 The Fan Seller

 The Old Hero (1893)

Waiting

Friday, March 8, 2013

Walter Williams

Walter Williams (1836-1906) was an English landscape painter. Born George Walter Williams, he always went by Walter. To complicate matters, there was another English landscape painter named Walter Heath Williams, about whom little is known. I'm fairly confident that these paintings are by the first Walter Williams, but I won't swear to this in court...

 A Surrey Cornfield (1869)

 On the River Tavy, Devon

 On the Common

Milgrave Cibley, Yorkshire (ca. 1875)

River Valley with Angler and Cottages

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Charles Ernest Butler

Charles Ernest Butler (1864-1933) was an English painter who specialized in mythological scenes, portraits and landscapes.

 Blood and Iron (1916)
[obviously not a Victorian painting but a very interesting bit of propaganda from World War I]
 Funeral of a Viking Warrior

Poole Harbour, Dorsetshire (1904)

 King Arthur (1903)

 Siegfried and Brunnhilde (1909)

The River Thames from Wandsworth Bridge

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

William Charles Thomas Dobson

William Charles Thomas Dobson (1817-1898) was an English painter. Much of his work focused on children.

 A Venetian Girl (1878)

 The Drinking Fountain (1861)

 The Child Jesus Going Down with His Parents to Nazareth (1856)

The Prosperous Days of Job (1855)

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Lucien Davis

Lucien Davis (1860-1941) was a Victorian artist whose work is best known in the form of illustrations. These works - great genre pieces all - show a different side of Victorian society than is generally seen.

 A Christmas Dance - The Lancers (1889)

 Afternoon in Hyde Park - Waiting to See the Princess of Wales and Her Daughters

 Christmas Day (1900)

 Christmas Eve and... (1900)

 Christmas Festivities - Rehearsing a Tableau (1891)

 No Admittance Except on Business (1885)

 Garden Party in Honor of the Shah at Hatfield House, Seat of the Marquis of Salisbury (ca. 1889)

 Hyde Park on Sunday (1888)

 Lady Cricketers - A Good Catch (1889)

 Members of a Ladies' Hockey Club at play (1894)

New Year's Festivities - The Cotillion