Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Marianne Stokes

Marianne Stokes (1855-1927) was an Austrian-born painter who settled in England after marrying, and became a prominent Victorian painter.

 A Parting

 A Tearful Child

 Angels Entertaining the  Holy Child (1893)

 Aucassin and Nicolette
[these two were the subjects of a medieval legend]

 Death and the Maiden (1900)
 Childhood's Treasures (1886)

 On the Way to the Fields (1883-87)

 Polishing Pans (1887)

 In a Field of Buttercups (ca. 1882)

 Sweet Dreams (1875)

 The Frog Prince

The Passing Train (1890)

Monday, March 25, 2013

Lucien Davis, ctd

 No Getting Over - Snowed-Up at the Church Stile (1905)

 Queen Victoria at the Costume Ball, 1843 (1887)

 Preparing for the Fancy-Dress Ball - Finishing Touches (1898)

 Skating on the Serpentine (1895)

 The Coming of Santa Claus (1897)

 The English Lady Cricketers - Miss Stanley Batting (1890)

 The Debutante (1894)

 The House of Commons, Tea on the Terrace (1893)

 The Thames Boating Season - Market Day at Kingston (1887)

 The Washington Post (1898)

Under the Mistletoe

Friday, March 22, 2013

John Faed

John Faed (1819-1902) was the eldest of the Faed brothers. Two of his brothers (James and Thomas) also became prominent painters.

 Annie's Tryste (1864)

 Auld Mare Maggie (1870)

 Highland Interior with Figures

 Posthumus and Imogen (ca. 1865)
[a scene from Shakespeare's Cymbeline]

 Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden (ca. 1880)

 Queen Margaret's Defiance of the Scottish Parliament (1859)

 The Artist's Wife, Jane MacDonald (1890)

 Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (1851)

 The Cruel Sister (1851)
[scene from a popular ballad]  [another version]

 The Little Seamstress

 The Expectant Wee Things (engraving by William Miller)

 The Merlin (1888)

 The Parting of Evangeline and Gabriel (1870)
[a scene from Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline]

 The Statute Fair (1871)

 The Warning Before Flodden (1874)

Catherine Seyton and Roland Graeme, from Sir Walter Scott's 'The Abbot' (1863)

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Joseph Mallord William Turner - Liber Studiorum

JMW Turner's Liber Studiorum was a collection of Turner's works published as prints. This is only the first of several posts of these works.

 Basle (1806-07)

 Bridge and Cows (1806-07)

 Bridge and Goats (1806-07)

 Coast of Yorkshire (1806-07)

 Drawing of the Clyde (1806-07)

 Devil's Bridge, Mt St Gothard (1806-07)

 Dunstanborough Castle (1806-07)

 Dunblain Abbey, Scotland (1806-07)

 Hedging and Ditching (ca. 1808)

Hind Head Hill (ca. 1808)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

William Henry Gore

William Henry Gore (1880-1927) was an English genre painter.

 Listed (1885)
[by which I'm sure he means "enlisted"]
 Playmates

 The Rising Moon

Teasing the Cat

Forgive Us Our Trespasses