Thursday, November 14, 2013

Charles Cooper Henderson

Charles Cooper Henderson (1803-1877) seems to have focused on painting stagecoaches.

 A Paris Diligence
  
 Changing Horses for the London Mail Coach
  
 Changing Horses to a Post-Chaise outside the 'George' Posting-house (ca. 1830-40)
  
 Mail Coach in a Snowstorm (ca. 1835-40)
  
 Mail Coaches on the Road - the 'Quicksilver' Devonport-London 
Royal Mail about to Start with a New Team (1820-30)
  
 The London to Louth Mail Coach on an Open Road
  
The Louth-London Royal Mail Coach

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

James Burrell Smith

James Burrell Smith (1822-1897) was a landscape artist who worked in watercolor.

 On the River Parret, Somersetshire (1890)
  
 A mother and child on the banks of a river with cattle grazing on the opposite side (1858)
  
 Loch Tay, near Kinmore (1852)
  
Title not given

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A Slew of Samuels

 Samuel Austin: Fishermen unloading the catch at low tide (1831)
  
 Samuel Bough: Anne, Nelly and Tom, the Children of David McBeath 
of Nunlands near Ayton, Berwickshire
  
 Samuel Bough: Shipping on the Thames
  
 Samuel Bough: The Highland Shoot (1864)
  
 Samuel David Colkett: A Gypsy Encampment
  
 Samuel David Colkett: Sheep Dipping (1836)
  
 Samuel Edmund Waller: After Culloden (1890)
  
Samuel Prout: Charles Bridge, Prague

Monday, November 11, 2013

Alfred Vickers

There are two English painters named Alfred Vickers, Sr. (1786-1868) and Alfred H. Vickers (1853-1907) - both landscape artists, and presumably father and son, though I haven't been able to verify this.

 A European Riverscape (ca. 1885)
  
 A Gypsy Encampment in the Isle of Wight
  
 Entrance to a Village
  
 Figures on a Beach
  
 Gathering Clouds in the Channel off the Isle of Wight
  
 On the Sands near Bembridge, Isle of Wight
  
 River landscape with figures and shipping, castle and town in the distance (1893)
  
 Rural Landscape with River
  
 The Cathedral of Prince St. Vladimir, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
Wooded Landscape with Resting Cows (1851)

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Joseph Severn

Joseph Severn (1793-1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects. [Wikipedia]

 Burying the Bible (1861)
  
 Ophelia (1860)
  
 Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing 'Prometheus Unbound' (1845)
  
The Abduction of Mary Queen of Scots

The Deserted Village (1857)

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Alfred De Bréanski, Sr

 Sunset by the Homestead
  
 The Colwyn at Beddgelert
  
 The Eagle Rock, Loch Lomond
  
 The Western Highlands
  
 Near Inversnaid, Loch Lomond
  
 Snowdon from Llyn Lydon
  
 St. Grwst Church, Llanrwst on the Conwy (1871)
  
 Stronlachar, near to Loch Katrine
  
 The Dee at Ballater
  
 The Stream at Castle Campbell
  
When the Trout Rise

Friday, November 8, 2013

Miscellaneous Pre-Raphaelite

 Edward John Poynter: Feeding the Sacred Ibis in the Halls of Karnac (1871)
  
 Isobel Lilian Gloag: The Magic Mantle (1898)
 
 Joseph Edward Southall: The Nut Brown Maid
  
 Michael Frederick Halliday: The Measure for the Wedding Ring (1855)
 
 Sidney Harold Meteyard: Saint Cecilia
  
 Sir Joseph Noel Paton: Sir Galahad and the Angel
  
Thomas Cooper Gotch: A Pageant of Childhood (1895)