Monday, April 15, 2013

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ctd

 Mariana (1870)

 Ligeia Siren (1873)

 La Ghirlandata (1873)

 Monna Pomona (1864)

 Portrait of Marie Spartali Stillman (1869)
[she was another Pre-Raphaelite painter and has been featured on this blog]

 Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee (1853)

 Portrait of Mrs. Georgina Fernandez (1874)

 Saint George and the Princess Sabra (1862)

 St Catherine (1857)

 Regina Cordium - Alice Wilding (1866)

 Sybilla Palmifera (1866-70)

The Beautiful Hand (1875)

Friday, April 12, 2013

Thomas Creswick

Thomas Creswick (1811-1869) was an English landscape artist. He seems to have visited America in the 1840s as several of the paintings in this set are of the Hudson River area.

 On the Terrace at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire (1840)

 A View of Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, with the river in the foreground (1847)

 Boating Party on the River Thames, England

 Bolton Abbey (1851)

 Figures and animals on along a river bank, a cottage and windmill beyond (1849)

 Figures on a Balcony, probably at West Point (ca. 1843)

 On the River Avon

 The Ford

 The Stile (1839)

 The Village Smithy

 Shepherds next to a Brook

 Trentside

View on the Hudson River (ca. 1843)

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Samuel Bough

Samuel Bough (1822-1878) was an English landscape artist who worked in Scotland for much of his career. Much of his work was done in watercolor.

 A Gaggle of Geese (1856)

 A Highland Village by a River (1849)

 A Windy Day

 At Barncluith, Hamilton (1854)

 Dysart on the Coast, Sunrise

 Cadzow Forest (1851)

 Earlswood Common, Redhill, Surrey

 Going Through the Lock

 A Sunny Day in Iona (1871)

 Fishing at Sunset

 Harvest-time

 Loading the Catch on the Berwick Coast (1874)

 Helmsley Castle in North Yorkshire

 Newhaven Harbour on the Firth of Forth

 Port Glasgow Harbour (1853)

 Ploughing, with a figure dressed in red entering the field (1854)

 Sunrise overshore, Kirkcaldy

 Snowballing Outside Edinburgh University (1853)

West Wemyss Harbour, Fife (ca. 1877)

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

William John Hennessy

William John Hennessy (1839-1917) was an Irish artist.

 The Dandelion Clock

 An Old Song (1874)

The Artist's Studio

 The Pride of Dijon (1879)

The Japanese Parasol (1890)

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

John MacWhirter

John MacWhirter (1839-1911) was a Scottish landscape painter.

 A Highland Loch

 A Sermon by the Sea

 June in the Austrian Tyrol (1892)

 Scotch Firs, Rothiemurchus (1903)

 'Night, most glorious night, thou wert not made for slumber'

 Over the Border (ca. 1880)

Spindrift (1876)

Stray Sheep