Hi, all. I'm taking a break for the holidays and won't be posting regularly until 2013.
Hope you have a wonderful and happy time of it.
Paintings by British Isles artists, mostly from the reign of Queen Victoria
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
David Roberts, ctd
Previous set of paintings by Roberts here.
Temple of Isis on the Island of Philae, Egypt (1838)
The Aqueduct of the Nile (1846-49)
The Island of Graia, Gulf of Akaba (1844)
The Moorish Tower at Seville, called the Giralda (1833)
The Porch of St Maclou, Rouen (1829)
The Temple of Dendera (1841)
The Temple of Kom Ombo (1838)
The Minarets of the Bab Zuweyleh, and Entrance to the Mosque of the Metwalls, Cairo (1838)
View of the Island of Philae with Isis Temple and Trajan's Kiosk, in the Nile, Nubia (1838)
Title Unknown
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Thomas Benjamin Kennington
Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) was an English genre and portrait painter.
A Merry Heart Goes a Long Way (1912)
Chatterboxes (1912)
Contemplation (ca. 1900)
Lady Reading by a Window
Orphans (1885)
Polishing the Brass
Reading the Letter (also called The Love Letter)
The Wedding Dress (1889)
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Briton Rivière, ctd
Aggravation (1896)
Play Fellows (1900)
Sympathy (1877)
The Long Sleep (1868)
The Miracle of the Gaderene Swine (1883)
[about the Gadarene Swine]
The Old Gardener (1863)
Tick-Tack (1881)
Una and the Lion
[depicting a story from the Fairie Queene]
War Time (1874)
Requiescat (1888)
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
George Goodwin Kilburne, ctd
Governess with Two Girls (1873)
Piano Practice
Poor Relations (1875)
Pretty Polly
Renunciation
The Heir (1890)
The New Arrangement
The New Book (1870)
The Next Dance
The Nursemaid
The Piano Lesson (1871)
Monday, December 17, 2012
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ctd
Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, accompanied by La Fornarina,
Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia (1820)
Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge (1843)
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Burning Fiery Furnace (1832)
The Angel Standing in the Sun (1846)
The Death of Actaeon, with a Distant View of Montjovet, Val d'Aosta (ca. 1837)
The Golden Bough (1834)
The Harbour of Brest, The Quayside and Château (ca. 1826-28)
The Scarlet Sunset (ca. 1830-40)
[this looks like it could have been painted by Monet]
Vision of Medea (1828)