Monday, March 17, 2014

C is for Charles

 Charles Green: Jack in the Green (1869)
  
 Charles Lees: The Golfers (1847)
  
 Charles Pettitt: The River Ferry
  
 Charles Rossiter: The Cottager's Family
  
 Charles Vacher: Bedouin Encampment before 
the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Egypt (1867)
  
 Charles Vigor: Saved. The Fire Service College
  
 Charles W. Fothergill: View of Gosport looking towards 
Portsmouth with H.M.S. Victory in Harbour (1901)
  
 Charles West Cope: The Royal Prisoners
  
 Charles William Bartlett: Captives in Rome
  
Charles William Mitchell: Hypatia
[her story is very interesting and worth reading]

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Sir Daniel McNee

Sir Daniel McNee (1806-1882) was a Scottish painter who mostly did portraits. He was said to have "inimitable powers as a teller of humorous Scottish anecdotes."

 John Ramsay McCulloch
  
 Professor Allen Thomson (1878)
 [he was a physician, known as an anatomist and embryologist]
  
 A Lady in Grey (1859)
  
Portrait of a Young Boy
[a young boy...?]

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Rubens Arthur Moore

Rubens Arthur Moore (1860-1933) was born Reuben but chose to go by Rubens. Another set of dates (1881-1920) is given elsewhere.

 A Fisherman by a Stream
 
 Sunday, Whitby Harbor (1898)
  
The Cock Tavern, Bishops Gate Street, London

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