Friday, March 14, 2014

R is for Robert

 Robert Cree Crawford: The Water Stoup (1882)
  
 Robert Dowling: The Grandfather's Visit
[Dowling lived and worked in Australia for part of his life but was English-born]
  
 Robert Hills: Returning from Market (1836)
  
 Robert MacInnes: The Grape Harvest (1848)
  
 Robert Payton Reid: A Little Tea and Gossip (1859)
  
 Robert Payton Reid: Blossom Time
  
 Robert Payton Reid: Love's Messenger
  
Robert Walker MacBeth: By the River

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

T is for Thomas

 Thomas Graham: Alone in London
  
 Thomas Henry Wyatt: The New Liverpool Exchange (ca. 1870)
  
 Thomas J. Banks: A Country House, in an Extensive Landscape
  
 Thomas P. Hall: The Brawl (1858)
[what a great slice of Victorian street life!]
  
 Thomas Phillips: Lord Byron in Albanian Dress
  
 Thomas Sewell Robins: A French Egg Boat entering Southhampton Water (1846)
[my search for "egg boat" yielded this]
  
 Thomas Stanley Barber: A Walk by the River
  
 Thomas Sword Good: No News (1833)
  
Thomas Wade: Turf Cutters (1869)

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Monday, March 10, 2014

Pre-Raphaelites

 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones: The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness (1884)

 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones: Guinevere Rescued by Lancelot
 
 Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale: Love and Its Counterfeits (ca. 1904)
  
 Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale: Love Will Find Out the Way
  
 George Frederick Watts: When Poverty Comes in at the Door Love Flies Out the Window
  
 Hugh Goldwin Riviere: The Lonely Life (1899)
  
 Robert Braithwaite Martineau: Picciola (1853)
  
 Robert Braithwaite Martineau: The Last Day in the Old Home (1862)
  
 Robert Gibb: Elaine
  
Sidney Harold Meteyard: "I am half sick of shadows" said the Lady of Shalott

Sunday, March 9, 2014

R. H. Manning

Bellagio, Lake of Como
  
 Coddenham Church, Suffolk (1860)
  
 Elizabeth Castle, Jersey
  
 Florence
  
Minster Isle of Thanet
 
 St Lawrence (1861)
  
Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Lake of Como

Saturday, March 8, 2014

William Edward Frost

William Edward Frost (1810-1877) was one of two Victorian artists who focused on nudes (the other being William Etty).

 L'Allegro (1848)
 
 Sirens and the Night
  
The Three Graces (1856)