Wednesday, September 18, 2013

George Bernard O'Neill

 Mother's Help
  
 Stolen Fruit is the Sweetest
  
 Sunday Afternoon
  
 The Despatch
  
 The Duet (1886)
  
 The Foundling (1852)
  
 The Last Day of the Sale (1857)
  
 The Naughty Boy (1867)
 
 The Reproof (1867)
  
 The Surprise
  
 The Sword Dance
  
 The Tête-à-Tête Tea
  
The Young Nurse

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Thomas Sidney Cooper

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) painted farm animals.

 A Cow and Two Sheep (1860)
  
 A Summer's Evening (1872)
  
 Among the Cumberland Mountains, Mist Clearing Off (1847)
  
 Canterbury Meadows (1867)
  
 Cattle in Canterbury Meadows
  
 Country Friends (1870)
  
 Fording a Brook, Suburbs of Canterbury (1834)
  
 Meadows Near Canterbury (1846)
  
 Morning in Canterbury Meadows
  
 Shepherd with Sheep (1868)
  
 The Fleecy Charge (1896)
  
Thomas Sidney Cooper and Thomas Creswick (attr): Farmyard Scene in Summer

Monday, September 16, 2013

Charles Sillem Lidderdale

Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830-1895) mostly painted women in outdoor rural settings.

 A Country Girl
  
 A Country Maid
  
 A Gleaner
  
 An Old Tale Retold (1887)
  
 At the Garden Gate
  
 Foster Mother (1884)
 
Knitting (1888)
  
 Returning From Market (1886)
  
Returning Home (1881)
  
 The Fern Gatherer (1877)
  
 The Gleaner (1890)
  
 The Letter (1882)
  
 The Young Bride
  
The Young Faggot-gatherer (1894)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Maritime Painting

Because Britain was the world's pre-eminent maritime power in the 19th century, it was natural for maritime art to be a popular genre of painting.

 Colin Hunter (1841-1904): Hauling in the Nets at Sunset
  
 David James (1853-1904): Low Tide, the Cornish Coast (1887)
  
 Edwin Hayes (1819-1904): After the Storm, the Irish Coast (1871)
  
 George Clarkson Stanfield (1828-1878): The Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805
  
 Henry King Taylor (1799-1868): Shipping in a Heavy Swell in the Channel off Dover
  
 Henry King Taylor: View of St. Aubin's Fort, St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey
  
 Henry Moore (1831-1895): Light Airs at Sunset (1870-73)
  
 Henry Redmore (1820-1888): Luggers and other commercial traffic in a calm off Whitby (1871)
  
John Scougall: On the Thames at Westminster

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Richard Parkes Bonington

 Landscape near Quilleboeuf, France (1824-25)
  
 Normandy Coast (ca. 1825)
  
 On the French Coast, Sundown (ca. 1823)
  
 Portia and Bassanio (ca. 1826)
  
 Rouen (1825)
  
 Scene in Normandy (ca. 1823)
  
 Shipping off the Coast of Dieppe
  
 Sunset in the Pays de Caux (1828)
  
 The Pont des Arts, Paris (ca. 1826)
  
 The Rialto, Venice (1826)
  
 The Salt Marshes Near Trouville (1826)
  
 Venice, Ducal Palace with a Religious Procession (1828)
  
View near Rouen (ca. 1825)