Sunday, August 18, 2013

Tristram James Ellis

Tristram James Ellis (1844-1922) worked primarily in watercolor.

 Tangiers (1894)
  
The Golden Horn

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore

Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore (1853-1901) was the most prominent member of a family of artists from Nottingham. He specialized in maritime scenery.

 Amsterdam (1884)
  
 Pomona Docks (1894)
  
 Ships in Portsmouth Harbour
  
 Steam-powered sailing ship and other craft by moonlight
  
 The Evening of Trafalgar (1890)
  
 The Pool of the Thames, over London's Silent Highway (1890)
  
 The Thames at Greenwich
  
 Torchlight Tattoo of Robin Hood Rifles, Nottingham Market Place (1896)
  
View of Greenwich in 1877 Showing the Training Ship HMS 'Warspite'

Friday, August 16, 2013

David Bates

David Bates (1840-1921) was an English landscape artist who often worked in watercolor.

 A Path in Wharfedale
  
 A village in mid-Wales (1895)
  
 An Eckington Pastoral
  
 An Oasis in the Desert (1899)
  
 Gathering Brushwood
  
 In the Valley of the Avon (1908)
  
Near Tewkesbury (1908)

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Sir David Murray

Sir David Murray (1849-1933) was a Scottish landscape painter.

 Across the River (1907)
  
 Autumn Gently Tints the Glen (1917)
[is that bull in the stream grinning at us?]
  
 Duddington Church and Barn
  
 In the Country of Constable (1903)
[a nice tribute to the pioneering artist of English landscape]
  
 My Love has Gone a-Sailing (1883)
  
River Tay, a Watering Place

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Walter Field

Walter Field (1837-1901) was a genre painter.

 Men were Deceivers Ever (1859)
  
Waterlilies (1864)

Henley Regatta (1879)

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

A Feast of Fredericks

 Frederick Brown: An Impromptu Dance - A Scene on the Chelsea Embankment (1883)
  
Frederick Brown: Candidates for Girton (1884)
[This must be a reference to Girton College]
  
 Frederick Daniel Hardy: A Fog
  
 Frederick Daniel Hardy: The Artist's Visit
  
 Frederick George Cotman: One of the Family (1880)
  
Frederick Hall: Cinderella (1891)

Monday, August 12, 2013

Henry Tanworth Wells

Henry Tanworth Wells (1828-1903) was a painter of portraits and historical scenes.

 Alice (1877)
[she was the artist's daughter]
  
 Emma and Federica Bankes of Soughton Hall (1869)
  
 John Corbett (1894)
  
 Loading at the Quarry, Holmbury Hill
  
 Queen Victoria Opening of the Royal Courts of Justice, 1882
  
 Queen Victoria Receiving News of Her Accession to the Throne (1880)
 
 Sir Frederic William Burton
  
Volunteers at the Firing Point (1866)