Monday, August 5, 2013

John Frederick Lewis

 A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai (1842)
  
 A Greek Girl Standing on a Balcony (1840)
  
 A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception) (1873)
  
A Short Cut Home
  
 An Arab School
  
Asking for Alms, Seville (1833)
 
 Figures and Animals in a Vineyard (ca. 1829)
  
 Game Keeper and Boy Ferreting a Rabbit (ca. 1828)
  
 On the Banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt (1876)
  
 Roman Pilgrims (1854)
  
 The Ramesseum at Thebes (1841-51)
  
 Tyrolese Hunters (1827-28)
  
 Veiled Egyptian Girl, Cairo

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd (1817-1886) was known as a painter of fairies and genre, historical, and Orientalist scenes.

 Caravanserai at Mylasa in Asia Minor (1845)
  
 Contradiction, Oberon and Titania
  

Photo of Dadd in the process of painting the above work (ca. 1856)
 
 Fish Market by the Sea (ca. 1860)
  
 Hamlet and His Mother, the Closet Scene (1846)
  
 David Spareth Saul's Life (1854)
  
 Portrait of a Young Man (1853)
  
 Puck (1841)
  
 The Fairy Feller's Master-stroke
  
The Flight out of Egypt (1858)

Saturday, August 3, 2013

John Wilson Carmichael

John Wilson Carmichael (1800?-1868) was primarily a painter of maritime scenes.

 A View of Murton Colliery near Seaham, County Durham (1843)
  
 Dutch Shipping off the Isle of Goeree in Holland (1858)
  
 HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic (1847)
  
 Proposed New Street for Newcastle (1831)
  
 Robin Hood's Bay (1857)
  
 Shipping off Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland (1844)
  
 The Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855
  
 The Irwin Lighthouse, Storm Raging (1851)
  
Tynemouth, From a Southerly Aspect (1840)

Friday, August 2, 2013

Richard Parkes Bonington

Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) was an English painter, mostly of landscapes, who worked in France for most of his (unfortunately very brief) career.

 A Cutter and Other Shipping in a Breeze (1827-28)
  
 A Scene on the French Coast (ca. 1825)
  
 A Wooded Lane (ca. 1825)
  
 Barges on a River (1826)
  
 Beach Scene (ca. 1825)
  
 Beached Vessels and a Wagon, near Trouville, France (ca. 1825)
  
 Boats near Shore, Normandy
  
 Corso Sant'Anastasia, Verona (1828)
  
 Fishmarket (ca. 1824)
  
 Grand Canal, Venice (1826)
  
 Henri III and Don Juan of Austria (ca. 1828)
["Don Juan of Austria"?]
  
 Honfleur
  
La Ferté (ca. 1825)

Thursday, August 1, 2013

William Callow

William Callow (1812–1908) was an English landscape painter, engraver and water colorist.

 A Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice (1866)
  
 Canal in Ghent
  
 Fishing Boats off Gravesend (ca. 1840)
  
 Glen Etive, Scottish Highlands (1878)
  
 Richmond Castle, Yorkshire (1843)
  
 Seascape with Five Figures (1833)
  
 Temple of Vesta and the Falls at Tivoli (1859)
 
 The Belfry and Old Cloth Hall, Bruges (1882)
  
 Venice from the Grand Canal (ca. 1855)