Friday, March 7, 2014

Pot-pourri

 Isaac Cullin: Newmarket, a July Meeting
  
 Joseph Clark: A Christmas Dole
  
 Joseph Nash: The Opening of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, by Queen Victoria on 10th June 1854
  
 Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton: A Forgotten Author (1890)
  
 Keeley Halswelle: A Newhaven Fish-Lassie (1864)
  
Leonard Campbell Taylor: Battledore (1906)

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Ernest Arthur Rowe

Ernest Arthur Rowe (1860-1922) is described as a "Victorian garden painter." He worked in watercolor.

 Grey Day, Brockenhurst, Hampshire
  
 Mentone and Monte Carlo from the Capo Bordighera
  
 Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, The Fountain (1898)
  
 Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, The Rose Garden (1898)
  
 The Monk's Garden, Ashridge
  
 The Terrace, Gwydyr
  
 Under the Terrace, Brome Hall
  
Versailles, October

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Frank Dicksee

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (1853-1928) was a painter and illustrator, the son of Thomas Francis Dicksee. He appears to be stylistically linked to the Pre-Raphaelites.

 Chivalry (1885)
  
 Paolo and Francesca
  
 Portrait of the Hon. Mrs Ernest Guinness (1912)
  
 Romeo and Juliet
  
 The Duet
  
The Two Crowns
[in case it's not clear, this is an allegory of the contrast between earthly and 
spiritual power; one crown is of gold, worn by the king on horseback, 
and one is of thorns, worn by the Christ in the statue at right]

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

W is for William

William Charles Thomas Dobson: The Child Jesus 
Going Down with His Parents to Nazareth (1856)
  
 William Duffield: Still Life of Game, A Stein, 
A Silver Gilt Claret Jug and Fruit on a Marble Ledge
  
 William Fettes Douglas: Woman in Shawl with Roses
  
 William Gunning King: Saturday Afternoon
  
 William Holyoake: Front Row at the Opera
  
 William Huggins: Bideston Farmhouse
  
 William Huggins: Mill on the Thames, Mapledurham
  
 William Huggins: Watermill at Rossett
  
William James Webbe: The Shadow of a Rock

Monday, March 3, 2014

J is for John

 John Dalbiac Luard: Nearing Home
  
 John Dolman: Les Miserables (London cab stand)
  
 John Emms: Youth with Two Horses at a Trough
  
 John Frederick Tennant: Hillsborough Head, near Ilfracombe, Devon (1869)
  
 John Frederick Tennant: Waiting for the Catch (1839)
  
John Gulich: A Violin Concerto
 
 John Herbert: The Wine that Maketh Glad the Heart of Man
 
John Knox: View of Glencoe
 
John Muirhead: The Calm before a Storm (1881)

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Clarkson Stanfield

Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) was an English maritime painter.

 Oude Scheld - Texel Island, Looking towards Nieuwe Diep and the Zuider Zee (1844)
 
 A Dutch Barge and Merchantmen Running out of Rotterdam (1856)

 The Battle of Trafalgar
 
 The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice (1836)
   
Tilbury Fort - Wind Against the Tide (1853)

View of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau in the Pyrenees, with Brigands

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Benjamin Walter Spiers

About Benjamin Walter Spiers, little seems to be known. When all I can find about his dates is "active 1875-1893" that's a sign that he's pretty obscure. He did, however, paint some nice and very complicated still lifes.

 "Old armour, prints, pictures, pipes, China (all crack'd), 
old rickety tables, and chairs broken back'd"  Thackeray
  
 A Connoisseur's Collection: Still life with a cello, violin, oranges, 
a lemon and a pineapple on table covered with a Persian carpet (1884)
  
An interior, a still life