Sunday, February 9, 2014

Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896) was a Liverpool-born landscape artist with ties to the Pre-Raphaelites.

 Windsor Castle (1889)
  
 Cwm Trefaen (ca. 1855-60)
  
View of Durham Cathedral

Saturday, February 8, 2014

William Leighton Leitch

William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883) was a master Scottish landscape watercolor painter and illustrator. He was Drawing Master to Queen Victoria for 22 years. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, on Pall Mall in London, for twenty years.

 Figures before Roslin Chapel, near Edinburgh (1875)
  
 Harbour Scene at Salerno, Italy (1872)
  
 Hayward's Heath
  
 Mediterranean Coastal Scene
  
 Aberystwith

Friday, February 7, 2014

William Banks Fortescue

William Banks Fortescue (1850-1924) was a genre painter. Before taking up painting, and studying in Paris, he spent some time as an engineer of design. His subjects were landscapes, genre relating to ships and boats, and still-life. In 1883 he went to Venice for further study. He became associated with the Newlyn School and had a close friendship with fellow painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes.

 Woman by Lily (1886)
  
 Cowslip Gatherers (1884)
  
 Medical Attention
  
Picking Daffodils

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Philip Richard Morris

 A Flaw in the Will
  
 Changing Pasture
  
 Charles Edward Flower, Brewer and Benefactor (1891)
  
 Home, Sweet Home
  
 Homewards
  
 The End of the Journey (ca. 1870)
  
 The First Communion, Dieppe (1878)
  
 The Good Samaritan (1857)
  
 The Highland Laddie's Return
  
 The 'Nancy Lee' of Great Yarmouth
  
 The Reaper and the Flowers
  
 The Return from Communion
  
Varens

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Henry Towneley Green

Henry Towneley Green (1836-1899) was a watercolor painter and illustrator.

 A Sussex Glade
  
 Horse-drawn Carriage in the Snow (1898)
  
 Interior, Woman Rising from Chair
  
 Scrumpers 1867)
  
 The Woodland Encounter (1866)
  
Young Woman Seated in a Kitchen Interior (1895)

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Landscapes

 Adrian Stokes: Uplands and Sky (1886-88)
  
 Aster Chantry Corbould and Joseph Adam: The Secret Glen (1861)
  
 Charlotte Nasmyth: A Highland Loch Landscape (1849)
  
 George Cole: Early Morning on the Tamar, Devon (1872)
  
 Joseph Horlor: A Milkmaid with Cattle Crossing a Bridge, Wales
  
Colin Hunter: Changing Pastures (1898)

Monday, February 3, 2014

Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) was associated with the Newlyn School. He specialized in maritime scenes and depictions of young men and boys bathing in the sea.

 A Three-masted Ship at Anchor
  
 All Hands to the Pumps (1889)
  
 At the Metal Merchant (1888)
  
 August Blue (1894)
  
 Off Falmouth (1896)
  
 Return from Fishing (1907)
  
 Shipping at Anchor, Carrick Roads (1898)
  
 Sunset Effect (1896)
  
 The Midday Rest
  
 The Silk Gown (1885)
  
 Two French Barques at their Anchorage in Carrick Roads (1906)
  
Windjammers Lying on their Moorings as they wait for Cargo in Falmouth (1908)