Thursday, June 27, 2013

Arthur Hacker

Arthur Hacker (1858-1919) was an English painter who did portraits, genre and classical scenes.

 A Difficulty (1888)
 
 A Heavy Burden
 
 A Morning Walk (1902)
 
 A Nude Bacchante with Child
 
 By the Waters of Babylon
 
 Fisherman's Wife (1885)
 
 Imprisoned Spring (1911)
 
 Mrs. R. E. Moare (1889)
 
 Musicienne du Silence (1900)
 
Pelagia and Philammon (1887)

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Albert Joseph Moore

Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893) was a Victorian classicist painter. 

 A Garden (1869)
 
 A Reverie (1892)
 
 A Summer Night (ca. 1887)
 
 Blossoms (1881)
 
 Dreamers (1882)
 
 Jasmine
 
 Seashells
 
 Silver (1886)
 
 Waiting to Cross
 
Hairpins

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Keeley Halswelle

Keeley Halswelle (1832-91) was an English painter of landscapes, seascapes and genre scenes.

 A Cornfield at Harvest
 
 Contadini in St. Peters, Rome (1871)
 
 Eel Traps on the River Thames
 
 Passing Storm, Ely (1886)
 
 River Weed
 
 Stormy seascape with figures being rescued from wreckage
 
 The Fleet Returning in Rough Weather
 
 The Quack Doctor of the Piazza Rotonda, Rome
 
 Valley of the Thames (1882)
 
Waiting for Hire - Scene at the Marcellus Theatre, Rome

Monday, June 24, 2013

Sir Luke Fildes

Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927) was a prominent illustrator and painter.

 Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
 
 Devotion (1882)
 
 Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales (1893)
 
 Rosa Siega (1876)
 
 The Doctor (1891)
 
 The Love Letter
 
The Widower (1875-76)

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Edward Henry Corbould

 A Girl Reading in a Sailing Boat (1869)
 
 Jehu son of Nimshi on his way to Jezreel (1879) 

 Lord Eglinton dressed as the Lord of the Tournament (ca. 1840)
 
 Saul and the Witch of Endor (1860)
 
 The Poultry Girl (1851)
 
The Tryst
[said to depict a young Queen Elizabeth and Prince Albert]

Friday, June 21, 2013

Frederick Goodall

Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) was an English artist specializing in genre and Orientalist painting, the latter of which were inspired by his two trips to Egypt.

 A Dream of Paradise (1889)
 
 Age and Infancy (1852)
 
 An Episode in the Happier Days of Charles I (1853)
[before his unruly subjects lopped his head off...]
 
 Entering a Church, Brittany (1840)

Leaving a Church, Brittany (1840)
 
 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1890)
[Kitchener was lionized by the English for his exploits in the Sudan.]
 
 Interior of a Coffee Shop, Cairo (1859-70)
 
 Leading the Flock (1889)
 
 Leaving the Village
 
 Memphis (1882)
[Egypt, not Tennessee]
 
Mrs Charles Kettlewell in Neoclassical Dress (1890)