Monday, May 20, 2013

William Henry...

 William Henry Hamilton Trood: Pups' Slumber (1890)

 William Henry Knight: Knuckle Down (1857)

 William Henry Knight: Rivals to Blondin (1862)
[Charles Blondin was a French acrobat and tightrope walker.]

 William Henry Knight: Hide and Seek (1860)

 William Henry Knight: The Broken Window (1855)

 William Henry Knight: The Last Change

 William Henry Knight: The Young Artist (1861)

 William Henry Knight: The Youngest Child

 William Henry Midwood: In Disgrace (1871)

 William Henry Midwood: Rustic Courtship
[doesn't look like she's buying it]
 
 William Henry Midwood: The Music Lesson

William Henry Midwood: The Potter

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Heywood Hardy

Heywood Hardy (1842-1933) was an English painter of rural sporting scenes and the life of the country gentry. His father, James Hardy, was a respected landscape artist.

 A Meeting by the Stile

 A Ride by the Sea

 Changing Horses

 Changing the Horses

 Colonel And Mrs Wyndham Murray

 Corn Stooks by Bray Church (1872)

 Hacking to the Meet

 Hounds First, Gentlemen, Hounds First

 Lady and Gentleman on Horseback by a Blacksmith's Forge

 Noonday, Taking a Horse to Water (1877)

 Off to the Market (1908)

 On the Road to Gretna Green

 Pleasant Company (1906)

 Poverty and Privilege

The Aviary

Monday, May 13, 2013

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)

Friday, May 10, 2013

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

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

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)