Monday, March 18, 2013

William Henry Hunt

William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) was an English watercolor painter who specialized in still lifes. Due to his fondness for one particular subject he was given the nickname "Bird's Nest Hunt".

A Barn Interior with a Boy Standing by a Chest

 A Peasant Girl (1838)

 A Water Carrier (1830s)

 Apples

 Fruit

 Grapes and a Yellow Snail Shell (ca. 1850)

 Primroses and Bird's Nest (1840s)

 Still Life with Greengages and Plums on a Mossy Bank

 Still Life with Roses in a Vase and a Bird's Nest (ca. 1850)

 Still Life with Sea Shells on a Mossy Bank

 Still Life with a Jug, a Cabbage in a Basket and a Gherkin

 The Farm Boys (1833)

Untitled (Drawing of a Gentleman)

Friday, March 15, 2013

Edward Henry Corbould

Edward Henry Corbould (1815–1905) was an English painter, illustrator and sculptor.

 Lady Godiva

 Hetty Sorrel and Captain Donnithorne in Mrs Poyser's dairy (1861)
[about this painting, which was commissioned by Queen Victoria]

Troilus and Cressida in the Garden of Pandarus (1873)

 Amor Vincit Omnia

 Odalisque (1841)

Astarte

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Charles Martin Hardie

Charles Martin Hardie (1858-1916) was a Scottish painter who did landscapes, genre scenes and portraits.

 'For my vestments they did cast lots' (1895)

 A shepherd and sheepdog resting in a moorland river landscape (1886)

 Andrew Stewart, Editor of 'The People's Friend' (1895)

 Curling at Carsebreck (1899)

 East Lothian Coastline Looking West

 Friendly Critics (1882-83)

 Interior, Ancrum

 Julius Charles Drewe (1905)

 Mrs. Julius Drewe (1902)

 Mary Drewe in the Garden at Wadhurst Hall, East Sussex

 Sir Walter Scott Finding the Manuscript of Waverley in an Attic (1890)

 William Grant Stevenson (1893)

 The Studio Mirror (1898)

 Second Lieutenant Edward Younger, 16th Queen’s Own Lancers (ca. 1901)

 The Meeting of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott at Sciennes Hill House (1893)

Title Unknown

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)