Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Henry Towneley Green

Henry Towneley Green (1836-1899) was a watercolor painter and illustrator.

 A Sussex Glade
  
 Horse-drawn Carriage in the Snow (1898)
  
 Interior, Woman Rising from Chair
  
 Scrumpers 1867)
  
 The Woodland Encounter (1866)
  
Young Woman Seated in a Kitchen Interior (1895)

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Landscapes

 Adrian Stokes: Uplands and Sky (1886-88)
  
 Aster Chantry Corbould and Joseph Adam: The Secret Glen (1861)
  
 Charlotte Nasmyth: A Highland Loch Landscape (1849)
  
 George Cole: Early Morning on the Tamar, Devon (1872)
  
 Joseph Horlor: A Milkmaid with Cattle Crossing a Bridge, Wales
  
Colin Hunter: Changing Pastures (1898)

Monday, February 3, 2014

Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) was associated with the Newlyn School. He specialized in maritime scenes and depictions of young men and boys bathing in the sea.

 A Three-masted Ship at Anchor
  
 All Hands to the Pumps (1889)
  
 At the Metal Merchant (1888)
  
 August Blue (1894)
  
 Off Falmouth (1896)
  
 Return from Fishing (1907)
  
 Shipping at Anchor, Carrick Roads (1898)
  
 Sunset Effect (1896)
  
 The Midday Rest
  
 The Silk Gown (1885)
  
 Two French Barques at their Anchorage in Carrick Roads (1906)
  
Windjammers Lying on their Moorings as they wait for Cargo in Falmouth (1908)

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Thomas Heaphy

There were two Thomas Heaphys - father and son - who painted. I am unsure who did these. Best guess: first one by the father, and last two by the son.

 The Fortune Teller
  
 Robin Hood and Maid Marian
  
Woman with Cockatoo

Saturday, February 1, 2014

John L. Wimbush

 It's hard to imagine two more opposite scenes than these two.

An Opium Den at Lime Street
 
Waiting for a Bite (1901)

Friday, January 31, 2014

James Paterson

 Castlefern (1880-85)
  
 The Last Turning, Winter, Moniaive (1885)
  
 A Village in East Linton, Haddington
  
Thornhill (1893)

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Charles Napier Hemy

Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) was a British painter best known for his marine paintings and his two paintings in the Tate collections. He was born to a musical family at Newcastle-on-Tyne and his two brothers, Thomas and Bernard, were also painters. He trained in the Government School of Design, Newcastle, followed by the Antwerp Academy and the studio of Baron Leys. He returned to London in the 1870s and in 1881 moved to Falmouth in Cornwall. Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1898 and an Academician in 1910, he was also honoured as an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1890 and became a member in 1897. He died in Falmouth on September 30, 1917. [Wikipedia]

 Ruin of a Northumbrian Keep (1864)
  
 The Fisherman
  
Youth (1889)