Friday, April 11, 2014

W is for William - Final Post

This is the final post for this blog. I hope these paintings have brought some enjoyment. Peace out.

 William Skeoch Cumming: Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Defending Lieutenant Menzies during hand-to-hand fighting in the Battle of Kandahar, 1880 (1894)
  
 William Small: The Last Match (1887)
  
 William Strang: The Temptation
  
 William Strutt: The Prior's Feast
  
 William T. Maud: Ride of the Valkyries (1890)
  
 William Westall: The Commencement of the Deluge (1848)
  
 William Wilfrid Ball: Chinon in Late Summer (1901)
  
 William Wilfrid Ball: Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire
  
 William Wyld: The Garden at Versailles
  
William Wyld: Venice from the Lagoon

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Christian Mary Wilbee: A Waif from the Sea
  
 Cuthbert Brodrick: Interior Perspective, Leeds Town Hall (1854)
  
 Daniel Pasmore: A Cavalier in Love, a Toast to Beauty
  
 David Fulton: Fishing for Tiddlers (1889)
  
 David Wilkie Wynfield: An Incident in the Life of Queen Elizabeth
[interesting touch: the lady-in-waiting at left holding Elizabeth's wig]
  
 Delapoer Downing: The End of a Weary Day
  
 Denis Dighton: The Fall of Nelson
  
 Valentine Cameron Prinsep: At the First Touch of Winter, Summer Fades Away
  
Winifred Sandys: The White Mayde of Avenel

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Aster Corbould: Ferreting
  
 Aster Corbould: Thro the Wood (1862)
  
 Augustus Barnett Stewart: Monks and Other Figures, Syracuse (1880)
  
 Benjamin Evans Ward: London Flower Girls, Piccadilly Circus (1895)
  
 Bernard Walter Evans: Fountains Abbey
  
 Bonomi Edward Warren: Sportsman and dog on a wooded path
  
 Bonomi Edward Warren: Woodland Scene in Summer with Children on a Path (1871)
[he appears to have painted the same tree in both paintings]
  
Carlton Alfred Grant: The Fairy Circle (1895)

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

J is for John

 John Pettie: Hunted Down (1877)
  
 John Thomas Peele: The Young Scholar (1871)
  
 John Thomas Peele: The Young Water Carrier (1854)
  
 John Watkins Chapman: The Old Curiosity Shop
  
 John Watson Nicol: Lochaber No More
  
 John Wells Smith: Playtime
  
 John White: A Cornfield
  
 John William Haynes: Military Preparations
  
John William Hennessey: The Votive Offering

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)