Monday, April 7, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Joseph Farquharson: Delphiniums in a Wooded Landscape
  
 Marcus Stone: Claudio, deceived by Don Juan, accuses Hero, 
from 'Measure for Measure' by William Shakespeare
  
 Marcus Stone: Royalists Seeking Safety (1866)
  
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Etruscan Vase Painters (1871)
  
 Thomas Faed: A Game of Draughts
  
 Thomas Faed: A Lady of High Degree
  
 Walter Dendy Sadler: The Compleat Angler (1884)
  
 William Bell Scott: King Arthur carried to the Land of Enchantment (1847-62)
  
William Bell Scott: Study of Flowers and Fruit (1860)

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Abraham Cooper: Draught Horses (1828)
  
 Alfred Fowler Patten: The Child and the Star (1882)
  
 Alfred Provis: Feeding the Chicks
  
 Alice Boyd: St Columba's Farewell to the White Horse (1868)
  
 Alice Mary Havers: The First Arrivals (1881)
  
 Andrew MacCallum: The Sunny Side of Monkish life, 
the Convent of san Bonaventura, Rome (1868)
  
 Archibald Wakley: A Royal Princess (1903)
  
Arthur Trevithin Nowell: Captives (1887)

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Ford Madox Brown

 Death of Sir Tristram (1864)
  
 The Finding of Don Juan by Haidée (ca. 1869-1870)
  
Waiting, an English Fireside (1855)

Friday, April 4, 2014

C is for Charles

 Charles Gregory: The Deserter (1884)
  
 Charles William Mitchell: The Flight of Boreas with Oreithyia
  
 Charles Wynne Nicholls: "What are the wild waves saying?" Florence and Paul Dombey from Dombey & Son, by Charles Dickens
  
 Sir Charles Lock Eastlake: Christ Lamenting over Jerusalem (1846)
  
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake: Mrs Charles H. Bellenden Ker (1835)

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Pot-pourri

 George Percy Jacomb-Hood: Pan and the Nymph (1896)
  
 H. Williams: Near Glen Orchy
  
 Harold Hume Piffard: Saragossa, 10 February, 1809
  
 Herbert Smith: Portrait of the Young Queen Victoria
  
 Herbert Thomas Dicksee: Memories, an Old Man Seated in a Church (1885)
  
 Horace Henry Cauty: The Tennis Match
  
 Marshall Claxton: Lady Godiva (1850)
  
Sir Hubert von Herkomer: Haymaking and Lovemaking

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Landscapes

 Joseph Vickers de Ville: The Silent Pool (1886)
  
 Louis Bosworth Hurt: A Highland Drove at Strathfillan, Perthshire
   
 Sidney Richard Percy: Grange Over Sands, Cumbria (1874)
 
 Thomas Sidney Cooper: A Farm in Kent
  
 Tudor St George Tucker: Sunset (1900)
  
 Wilmot Pilsbury: Pershore, Worcestershire
  
 Wright Barker: A Shepherd and his Flock on a Path in Winter

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

William Logsdail

William Logsdail (1859-1944) was a prolific English landscape, portrait, and genre painter. He is notable for his realistic London and Venice scenes and his plein air style.

 A Venetian al fresco
  
 Piazza of St Mark's, Venice
  
 Picking Flowers in an Orange Grove
  
 St Martin-in-the-Fields