Wednesday, July 17, 2013

John Pettie

John Pettie (1839-1893) was a Scottish painter who spent most of his career in England. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1866 and a full academician in 1874. 

 An Arrest for Witchcraft in the Olden Time (1886)
 
 Bonnie Prince Charlie (1892)
[there are literally hundreds of songs about this guy]
 
 Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1889)
[this guy is better known as H. Rider Haggard, author of 
Victorian adventure novels, the best known of which is She]
 
 The Proposal (1869)
 
 The Scene in the Temple Garden from Henry VI, Part 1 (1871; engraving 1874)
[a depiction of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses]
 
The Vigil (1884)
 
 Two Strings To Her Bow (1882)

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Ebenezer Newman Downard

Ebenezer Newman Downard (1830?-1889?) was a genre and landscape painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1849 and 1889. In his use of meticulous detail and clear, bright light, some of his landscapes show the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite painters.

 A Mountain Path at Capel Curig, Wales (1860)
 
 Morning Prayer (1860-61)
 
 Winter Landscape with Fox and Hares

Monday, July 15, 2013

Frederick Goodall

 Puritan and Cavalier (1886)
 
 Summer Song (To Tinkling Lute…) (1863)
 
 The Deserter (1855)
 
 The Drinking Trough, A Scene in Brittany (1857)
 
 The Irish Piper (1847)
 
 The Ploughman and the Shepherdess: Time of the Evening Prayer (1897)
 
 The Sheikh's Daughter Sowing the Dourah (1889)
[dourah is a variety of sorghum]
 
 The Subsiding of the Nile, Egypt (1873)
 
 The Thames from Windsor Castle (1890)
 
The Virtuous Boy (1870)

Saturday, July 13, 2013

William McTaggart


 A Wet Harvest Day (1894)
 
 Autumn Sunshine in Sandy Dean (1890)
 
 Port Seton (1894)
 
 Sunset Glamour (1894)
 
The Past and the Present (1860)

Friday, July 12, 2013

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter.  One of his aunts, Julia Margaret Cameron, was a pioneering British photographer, while his other aunt, Maria Jackson, was the grandmother of Virginia Woolf. 

 A Venetian Gaming-House in the Sixteenth Century
 
 A Water Carrier
 
 Ayesha (1887)
 
 Bathing in the Ganges
 
 Carmen
 
 Cinderella
 
 Death of Siward the Strong
 
 For the Bread of the Needy is Their Life
 
 In a Street in Venice
 
 La Revolution
 
 Lady Frances Layland-Barratt
 
Leonora of Mantua

Thursday, July 11, 2013

John Samuel Raven

John Samuel Raven (1829-1877) was primarily a landscape artist.

 The Rooks' Parliament (1858)
 
Saint-foin in Bloom

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Walter Dendy Sadler

Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923) was a genre painter.

 A Good Story (1881)
 
 For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
  
 Girl on a Bench (1879)
 
 London to York - Time's Up, Gentlemen
 
 Summer on the River (1878)
 
  The Fishing Party (1874)
 
 The Suitor
 
 Thursday (1880)

 Friday (1882)
 
 His Favourite Bin
 
The Butler's Glass