Saturday, August 24, 2013

Christina Robertson

Christina Robertson (1796-1854) was a Scottish painter who spent many years in Russia doing portraits of Russian nobility.

 Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (ca. 1845)
  
 Children with a Parrot
  
 Empress Alexandra Fedorovna (1841-42)
  
 Grand Duchess of Russia, Alexandra Nikolaievna, daughter of Nikolai I
  
 Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna
  
 Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
  
 Portrait of Grand Princesses Olga Nikolayevna and Alexandra Nikolayevna
  
Portrait of Zinaida I. Yusupova

Friday, August 23, 2013

William Frederick Witherington

William Frederick Witherington (1785-1865) was a genre and landscape artist.

 A New Toy
  
 A Rest in a Fertile Valley
  
 Mid-Day Rest, Harvest (ca. 1840)
  
 Mother and child accompanied by a dog on a woodland path (1830)
  
 Stepping Stones on the Machno, North Wales - Study from Nature (1844)
  
 The Hop Garland (1843)
  
 The Robin
  
 The Sun Glass (1856)
  
The Village Post Office (1853)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

David Cox

David Cox (1783-1859) was a landscape artist who worked primarily in watercolor. One can see echoes of Turner in his work.

 A Welsh Funeral, Betwys-y-Coed (ca. 1847-50)
  
 Antwerp, Morning (1832)
  
 Battle Abbey, Sussex
  
 Boy Opening Gate for Sheep
  
 Crossing Lancaster Sands (1830s)
[here's Turner's painting of the very same subject]
  
 Dover (1832)
  
 Going to the Hayfield (1849)
  
 Haymaking (ca. 1808)
  
 Landscape with a Man Washing His Feet at a Fountain, after Poussin (ca. 1821)
  
London Bridge

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Sir William Blake Richmond

Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) was a portrait painter who also worked in stained glass.

 Countess of Airlie
  
 Hera in the House of Hephaistos (1902)
  
 Mrs Luke Ionides (1882)
  
 Portrait of Ethel Bertha Harrison
  
 Portrait of Mrs Ernest Moon (1888)
  
 The Sisters (1864)
  
Venus and Anchises (1890)

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Henry Meynell Rheam

Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920) was loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, although stylistically his paintings were quite diverse.

 A Maid Sweeping
  
 La Belle Dame sans Merci (1901)
  
 Melody (1904)
  
 Portrait of a girl in romantic medieval dress (1911)
   
Queen Mab
  
 Quia multum amavit - The Spirit of Christianity (1894)
  
 Snow White
  
 Study of a girl in the artist's studio standing before a tapestry (1910)
  
 The Fairy Wood
  
 The Guitar Player (1904)
  
 The Idler (1894)
  
 The Lady of Shallott
  
Titania Welcoming Her Fairy Brethren

Monday, August 19, 2013

George Bernard O'Neill

George Bernard O'Neill (1827-1917) was an Irish genre painter.

 A Friendly Word
  
 A Joyful Welcome (1901)
  
 Father's Breastplate
  
 Forty Winks
  
 Friendly Visit
  
 Gran's Treasures (1886)
  
 Grandfather's Advice
  
 Manning the Navy (ca. 1860)
[he makes it look like joining the British Navy in the 1800s was actually consensual]
  
 Nestlings (1870)
  
 Not Forgotten (1882)
  
Post Time (1877)