Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Henry Herbert La Thangue

Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859-1929) was an English painter of rural scenes. He was associated with the Newlyn School.

 A Ligurian Flower Girl
[Liguria is a coastal region in the northwest of Italy]
 
 A Provençal Forge

 A Provençal Stream (1903)

 A Sussex Orchard

 An Autumn Morning (1897)

 Gathering Plums (1901)

 Gathering Wool

 Goats at a Fountain

 In the Orchard

 In the Orchards, Haylands, Graffham

 Moonrise In Spain (1920)

 Off to Work (1902)

 Resting after the Game (1889)

Selling Chickens in Liguria

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Francis Sydney Muschamp

Francis Sydney Muschamp (1851-1929) was a genre painter.

A Pensive Moment

 Tennis Players (1882)

 The Letter

 The Music Lesson (1896)

 The New Buttonhole (ca. 1890)

 
 The Piano Lesson

 The Recital

 Threading Beads

Title Unknown (1888)

Friday, May 24, 2013

Miscellanea

Another posting of works by previously featured artists.

 Edwin Longsden Long: Jephthah’s Vow (The Martyr) (1885)

 George Elgar Hicks: The Goldfinch (1875)

 George Vicat Cole: A River in Wales

 John Callcott Horsley: Showing a Preference (1860)

 John Callcott Horsley: The Waiting Maid (1875)

 Maria Spartali Stillman: Blossom

 Robert Alexander Hillingford: Gifts for the War Chest

 Sir Joseph Noel Paton: Dionysus and Sea Nymphs (1853)

 William Powell Frith: Charles Dickens (1859)

 William Powell Frith: The Fair Toxophilites (1872)

William Powell Frith: The Rejected Poet: Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley (1863)

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Evelyn De Morgan

Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter and the niece of fellow Pre-Raphaelite John Roddam Spencer Stanhope.

 Boreas and Oreithyia (1896)
 By the Waters of Babylon (1882-83)

 Cadmus and Harmonia (1877)

 Cassandra (1898)

 Clytie (1886)

 Daughters of the Mist (1905-10)

 Luna

 Medea (1889)

 Port After Stormy Seas (1905)

 S.O.S. (1914-16)
[given the date, this would appear to be an allegorical treatment of World War I]

 The Garden of Opportunity (1892)

 The Gilded Cage (1905-10)

 The Kingdom of Heaven Suffereth Violence

The Sea Maidens (1885-86)

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

John Arthur Lomax

John Arthur Lomax (1857-1923) was a genre painter who specialized in nostalgia (his paintings were usually set a century earlier than his time). 

 A Favourite Author

 Dawn (1890-1910)

 Enough! (1890-1910)

 In the Library

 Over the Border

 Run to Earth

The Fisherman's Tale