Thursday, November 21, 2013

Arthur Hopkins

Arthur Hopkins (1848-1930) was a painter and illustrator.

 A Connemara Girl
  
 A Country Flower Show (1894)
  
 A Ladies Sketching Club (1885)
  
 A Young Girl Carrying Violets
  
 Convalescent (1882)
  
 Engaged (1876)
  
 Luncheon on the Ice: A Quiet Corner (1894)
  
 Spring Time, the Only Pretty Ring Time (1892)
  
The End of the London Season: The Last Church Parade of the Year (1892)
  
 The Fancy Dress Ball at Covent Garden (1892)
  
The New Governess (1892)

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

John Alexander Harrington Bird

John Alexander Harrington Bird (1846-1936) specialized in painting Orientalist scenes and horses.

 Groom with Two Arab Stallions (1911)
  
 An Arab mare and foal at an oasis
  
 An Arab Stallion at Dusk
  
 Ashurbanipal and Assur-Sharratt at a Lion Hunt (1899)
  
 Desert Rider (1905)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

George Smith

There seem to have been quite a few George Smiths who painted. I haven't found the dates of this one - assuming these are all by the same person, which stylistically they appear to be (to my untutored eye).

 As Cold Water is to a Thirsty Soul, So is Good News from a Far Country (1864)
 
 Here's Granny
  
 Registering the First Born (1863)
  
 The Eve of St Valentine (1871)
  
The Gamekeeper's Courtship

Monday, November 18, 2013

William Oliver

William Oliver (1823-1901) was an English artist. There appears to have been at least one other painter named William Oliver, dates 1804-1853. As far as I can tell, the paintings shown here are by the later one.

 Happy Hours
  
 Harvest Time
  
 Haymaking Scene
  
 Mediterranean Beauties
  
 Olivette (ca. 1845)
  
Summer Beauty

Sunday, November 17, 2013

John Everett Millais

For the Squire (1882)
 
 Mrs Isabella Elder (1886)
  
 The Farmer's Daughter
  
 The Girlhood of Saint Teresa (1893)
 
The Mistletoe Gatherer (1894)

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Walter Langley

 A Cornish Idyll (1902)
 
 A Daydream (1884)
  
 A Fisherman's Son (1884)
  
A Village Idyll (1888)
 
 Old Fishwife
  
 Silent Sorrow
  
The Sunny South (1885)

Friday, November 15, 2013

William James Müller

 Lycia: The Rocky Stair at Tlos (1844)
  
 On the Nile
  
 Rouen, La Fierté de St Romain (1840)
  
 Sketch for 'Eel Pots at Goring' (ca. 1843)
  
 Stonehenge
  
 The Burning of the New Gaol
  
 The Drawing Room at Fontainebleau (1845)
  
 The Temple, Aegina (1839)
  
 Venice
  
View of Bologna, Capriccio with Eastern Figures (ca. 1835)