Samuel Edward Waller

Samuel Edward Waller (1850-1903) was a highly skilled painter of genre and historical scenes. His paintings depict complicated stories, the exact nature of which is not always immediately apparent (to the modern eye, anyway - perhaps Victorian viewers immediately knew what was going on).

Courtship (1901)

 Success (1881)

 Sweethearts and Wives (1882)

[this appears to depict an incident from the English Civil War]

The Challenge (1887)

Joshua Hargrave Mann

Joshua Hargrave Mann (1826-1886) was an English genre painter. His dates are often mistakenly given as 1849-1884, in which case, the second painting below would have been done when he was 8 years old and the third when he was just three!

 The Cauld Blast (1876)

 The Child's Grave (1857)

 The Guardian Angels (1852)

Young Lady in Garden

John Henry Frederick Bacon

John Henry Frederick Bacon (1868-1914) was an English painter (of genre, historical and Biblical scenes and portraits) and illustrator.

'Suscipe me Domine' ('Receive Me O Lord') (1895)

 Designs on Mrs. Merdle (1911?)

Florentia Maria Crawshay, née Woods (1906)

 The Homage-Giving, Westminster Abbey, 9th August 1902

The Relief of Ladysmith, 27 February 1900

[an incident from the Boer War]

The Wedding Morning (1892)

 Young Woman with Roses (1903)

The Golden Butterfly - the Harvey Family

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ctd

 The Beloved (1865-66)

 The Blue Closet (1857)

 The Bower Meadow

 The Day Dream (1880)

 The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice (1853)

 The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)

 The Loving Cup (1867)

 The Roman Widow (1874)

 The Salutation of Beatrice (1869)

 The Wedding of Saint George and Princess Sabra (1857)

Veronica Veronese (1872)

Thomas Webster

Thomas Webster (1880-1886) was an English genre painter.

 A Dame's School (1845)

 A Letter From the Colonies (1852)

 A School Playground (1852)

 A Tea Party (1862)

 Boys Will Be Boys

 Good Night

 In Sickness and In Health (1843)

 Ring O' Roses (ca. 1850)

 Sunday Evening (1858)

The Village Choir (ca. 1847)

Henry Stacy Marks

Henry Stacy Marks (1829-1898) was an English painter of genre scenes. In later years he became famous as a painter of birds.

 A Bit of Blue (1877)

 A Select Committee (1891)

 A Treatise on Parrots (1885)

An Incredible Story

 Capital and Labour (1874)

Indian Crane, Bullfinch and Thrush

 Puritan Barracks (1856)

 Sailor on Lookout (ca. 1855)

 Science is Measurement (1879)

 The Angler's Rest (1884)

 The Convent Raven (1870)

 The Music Lesson (1874)

What is It? (1872)