Thursday, June 20, 2013

Heywood Hardy

 The Gamekeeper's Daughter
 
 The Gun Shot (1894 is my reading of the date at lower right)
 
 The Herdsman's Greeting
 
 The Introduction
 
 The Kill
 
The Meeting in the Forest (1903)
 
 The Morning Ride
 
 The New Mount (1902)
 
 The Rendezvous
 
 The Stirrup Cup
 
 The Unwanted Chaperone
 
 The Village Postman
 
 The Young Squire
 
 Visit to the Blacksmith (1902)
 
John Syer and Heywood Hardy: 
Summer Landscape with a Drover and Cattle crossing a River (1864)
[it's signed by both artists - presumably a collaborative work]

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Henry Herbert La Thangue

Some Poor People
 
 The Connoisseur (1887)
 
 The Festa
 
 The First Meal (1894)
 
 The Harvesters' Supper (1898)
 
 The Man with the Scythe (1896)
 
 The Mulberry Tree
 
 The Mushroom Gatherers (mid-1890s)
 
 The Ploughboy (1900)
 
 The Puppy
 
 The Return of the Reapers (1886)
 
 The Watersplash (ca. 1899)
 
 Watering the Cows
 
Winter in Liguria (1906)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

John Simmons

John Simmons (1823-1876) was a Victorian painter of fairies. 

 A Chance Encounter (1870)
 
 Fairy Lying on a Leaf
 
 Hermia and Lysander, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
 
 MidSummer Night
 
 The Evening Star
 
 There Lies Titania
 
 Titania Sleeping in the Moonlight Protected by her Fairies
 
Titania

Monday, June 17, 2013

Sir William Quiller Orchardson

Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910) was a Scottish artist who specialized in genre scenes and portraits.

 Dolce Far Niente (1872)
["dolce far niente" is Italian for "pleasant idleness"]
 
 Enigma (1891)
[presumably another of those "women are a huge mystery" paintings]
 
 Her First Dance (1884)
 
 Her Mother's Voice (exhibited 1888)
 
 Master Baby (1886)
 
 'Music when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory' (Shelley)
 
 Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon (1880)
 
 Rejected (1881)

 The First Cloud (1887)
 
 The Story of a Life (1866)
 
 The Young Duke (1889)
 
Wishart's Last Exhortation (1853)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Stones

Frank and Marcus, not Rolling...these two were father and son.

 Frank Stone: Friendship Endangered (1858)

 Frank Stone: Plotting Mischief
 
 Marcus Stone: A Stolen Kiss (1894)

 Marcus Stone: An Appeal for Mercy, 1793 (1876)
[this appears to portray an incident in the French Revolution]
 
 Marcus Stone: Married for Love (1882)
 
 Marcus Stone: My Lady is a Widow and Childless

 Marcus Stone: On The Road From Waterloo To Paris (1863)
  
 Marcus Stone: Reading Outdoors with Dog (1900)

 Marcus Stone: The Awakening (1882)

Marcus Stone: The Royal Nursery, 1538