Women Painters

Here are some paintings by Victorian women.

 Annie Simpson: A Snack with the Chickens (1894)

  

 Charlotte Babb: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (1881)

  

 Dora Noyes: Haymaking on Salisbury Plain (1912)

  

 Dora Noyes: Monday Morning

  

 Edith Hayllar: A Summer Shower

[and here's another of the Hayllar sisters]

  

 Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes: School is Out (1899)

 

 Ellen Clacy: A Chapel Interior with an Elegant Lady Playing the Virginal (1874)

  

 Ellen Clacy: Lady Betty Germain's China Closet (1880)

  

 Ellen Ladell: A Taxidermy Arrangement of Birds under a Glass Dome 

on a Book, a Bouquet of Flowers in an Earthenware Vase on a Ledge

  

 Ellen Ladell: Still Life of Grapes, Raspberries and a Pear

  

 Ellen Ladell: Still Life with Flowers

 

Henrietta Rae: The Sirens (1903)

George Bernard O'Neill

 Mother's Help

  

 Stolen Fruit is the Sweetest

  

 Sunday Afternoon

  

 The Despatch

  

 The Duet (1886)

  

 The Foundling (1852)

  

 The Last Day of the Sale (1857)

  

 The Naughty Boy (1867)

 

 The Reproof (1867)

  

 The Surprise

  

 The Sword Dance

  

 The Tête-à-Tête Tea

  

The Young Nurse

Thomas Sidney Cooper

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902) painted farm animals.

 A Cow and Two Sheep (1860)

  

 A Summer's Evening (1872)

  

 Among the Cumberland Mountains, Mist Clearing Off (1847)

  

 Canterbury Meadows (1867)

  

 Cattle in Canterbury Meadows

  

 Country Friends (1870)

  

 Fording a Brook, Suburbs of Canterbury (1834)

  

 Meadows Near Canterbury (1846)

  

 Morning in Canterbury Meadows

  

 Shepherd with Sheep (1868)

  

 The Fleecy Charge (1896)

  

Thomas Sidney Cooper and Thomas Creswick (attr): Farmyard Scene in Summer

Charles Sillem Lidderdale

Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830-1895) mostly painted women in outdoor rural settings.

 A Country Girl

  

 A Country Maid

  

 A Gleaner

  

 An Old Tale Retold (1887)

  

 At the Garden Gate

  

 Foster Mother (1884)

 

Knitting (1888)

  

 Returning From Market (1886)

  

Returning Home (1881)

  

 The Fern Gatherer (1877)

  

 The Gleaner (1890)

  

 The Letter (1882)

  

 The Young Bride

  

The Young Faggot-gatherer (1894)

Maritime Painting

Because Britain was the world's pre-eminent maritime power in the 19th century, it was natural for maritime art to be a popular genre of painting.

 Colin Hunter (1841-1904): Hauling in the Nets at Sunset

  

 David James (1853-1904): Low Tide, the Cornish Coast (1887)

  

 Edwin Hayes (1819-1904): After the Storm, the Irish Coast (1871)

  

 George Clarkson Stanfield (1828-1878): The Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805

  

 Henry King Taylor (1799-1868): Shipping in a Heavy Swell in the Channel off Dover

  

 Henry King Taylor: View of St. Aubin's Fort, St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey

  

 Henry Moore (1831-1895): Light Airs at Sunset (1870-73)

  

 Henry Redmore (1820-1888): Luggers and other commercial traffic in a calm off Whitby (1871)

  

John Scougall: On the Thames at Westminster