Victorian British Painting

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Philip Hermogenes Calderon

Art Lovers (1875)

Ruth and Naomi (1886)

Summer Berries (1883)

The Queen of the Tournament (1874)

The Vine (1880)

Whither? (1867)

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

J is for James

James Charles: Will It Rain? (1887)

James Peel: Fishing on the Derwent, Borrowdale

James Poole: Fisherman in a River Landscape

James Stark: Drover with Cattle and Sheep

James Stokeld: When the Boat Comes In (1862)

James Thomas Wheeler: Three Good Greys (1886)

James Turpin Hart: A Rustic Timepiece (1856)

James Wallace: Salmon Fishing on the Tweed (1907)

James Wallace: Salmon Fishing on the Tweed (1908)

Monday, February 10, 2014

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906) serves as a bridge in the great English tradition between the watercolors of J.M.W. Turner, whose works he copied, and those of John Singer Sargent, who was inspired to take up the medium after first seeing Brabazon Brabazon's watercolors in 1886.

Independently wealthy, Brabazon Brabazon did not exhibit any of the countless watercolors he had made on his yearly excursions through Europe, Africa and Asia until the age of 71 in 1892. He was praised for having "developed" Turner's technique "with a bravery and certainty of attack and a freshness of result, that are unsurpassed."-The Spectator, December 10, 1892 [imamuseum]

A Catholic Church

Capri

Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa de Frari, Venice

Figures Approaching a Windmill

Florence (ca. 1880)

Houses at Tivoli (ca. 1860)

Moroccan Souk

Mountain Landscape

Murano, near Venice

The Fountain, Taormina (ca. 1878)

The Grand Canal, Venice (ca. 1890)

Venice from the Bacino

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896) was a Liverpool-born landscape artist with ties to the Pre-Raphaelites.

Windsor Castle (1889)

Cwm Trefaen (ca. 1855-60)

View of Durham Cathedral

Saturday, February 8, 2014

William Leighton Leitch

William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883) was a master Scottish landscape watercolor painter and illustrator. He was Drawing Master to Queen Victoria for 22 years. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, on Pall Mall in London, for twenty years.

Figures before Roslin Chapel, near Edinburgh (1875)

Harbour Scene at Salerno, Italy (1872)

Hayward's Heath

Mediterranean Coastal Scene

Aberystwith

Friday, February 7, 2014

William Banks Fortescue

William Banks Fortescue (1850-1924) was a genre painter. Before taking up painting, and studying in Paris, he spent some time as an engineer of design. His subjects were landscapes, genre relating to ships and boats, and still-life. In 1883 he went to Venice for further study. He became associated with the Newlyn School and had a close friendship with fellow painter Stanhope Alexander Forbes.