Sunday, March 30, 2014

Pot-pourri

Daniel Maclise: Noah's Sacrifice (1847-1853)
  
 Ernest Walbourn: A Walk along the River
  
 George Goodwin Kilburne: The London to York Stagecoach on a Cobbled Street (1905)
  
 Haynes King: Home
  
 Henry Holiday: First Meeting of Dante and Beatrice (1877)
  
 James Webb: Kew Bridge (1874)
  
 John Byam Liston Shaw: Silent Noon (1894)
  
 John Callcott Horsley: Father's Words
  
John Martin: Macbeth (1820)

Saturday, March 29, 2014

W is for William

 Sir William Allan: The Ballad of Old Robin Gray
  
 Sir William Orpen: The Mirror (1900)
  
 William McTaggart: Queen Mary's Well, Barncluith (1867)
  
 William Mouat Loudan: Elaine (1899)
  
 William Parrott: Windsor Castle from the Thames
  
 William Pringle: High Green, Wolverhampton
  
 William Richard Lethaby: Blois (1882)
  
 William Savage Cooper: Phantasy (1896)
  
William Shakespeare Burton: The Cavalier and the Puritan

Friday, March 28, 2014

Pot-pourri

There will be a lot more of these "pot-pourri" postings as my collection winds down...

 Simeon Solomon: The Toilette of a Roman Lady
  
 Stephen Pearce: The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin
[song about Lord Franklin]
  
 Theodore Lane: Enthusiast (The Gouty Angler) (1828)
  
 Valentin Walter Bromley: The False Knight (1871)

 Vincent Clare: Still Life with a Basket of Flowers
  
 W. A. Franks: Manorbier Castle, South Wales
  
Wilder Darling: Grandmother's First Visit

Thursday, March 27, 2014

J is for John

 John Macallan Swan: Orpheus
  
 John Macallan Swan: The Prodigal Son (1888)
  
 John O'Connor: Ludgate, Evening (1887)
  
John Scarlett Davis: Interior of Amiens Cathedral (1841)
 
 John Seymour Lucas: After Culloden, Rebel Hunting (1884)
  
 John Seymour Lucas: The Interval (1905)
  
 John Stirling: Al-Sok - Market in Marocco (1869)
  
John Taylor Allerston: Wreck of the Seagull (1898)
 
John Wainwright: Flower-piece (1867)

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Daniel Sherrin

Daniel Sherrin was born in Brentwood, Essex, England in 1868, the son of John Sherrin, R.I. who specialized in still life subjects. Daniel studied under his father and became a pupil of Benjamin Leader, the well known landscape artist. He lived for a while on the East Coast of England near Whitstable and although primarily a landscape artist, he also painted along the shores of Suffolk and Norfolk.

 A Surrey Landscape
  
 Angler's Eden
  
 Collecting Wood, Howth
  
 English Country Garden
  
 Gathering Kindling
  
 Highland Cattle in a Mountainous Loch Landscape
  
 Near Bettws-y-Coed
  
 Perthshire, North Aberfoyle
  
Landscape (title unknown)

Monday, March 24, 2014

W is for William

 William John Hennessy: A Spring Fantasy (1880)
  
 William Joy: Bringing in the Catch
  
 William Kay Blacklock: Bringing Home the Hay
  
 William Lindsay Windus: Too Late
  
 William Linnell: A Chance Meeting in the Highlands (1887)
  
 William Linton: Roefield House with Low Moor Mill on the River Ribble 
with Clitheroe Castle and Pendle Hill in the Distance
  
 William Mainwaring Palin: Mother and Child (1899)
  
 William Marlow: View on the Thames
  
William Maw Egley: Tracing the Ship's Course (1898)