[A Castle in a Moonlit river Landscape] 1820
http://www.artnet.com/artist/13407/sebastian-pether.html
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sebastian Pether
[A Castle in a Moonlit river Landscape] 1820
http://www.artnet.com/artist/13407/sebastian-pether.html
George Morland
[An Angler in a wooded river Landscape]
[The Labourers Luncheon] 1792
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morland
S. Joseph Clark - Feeding the Calf
This is signed S J Clark so I assume is not Joseph Clark who is much better known.
Frederic Leighton (studio) - Lady Sybil Primrose
This was sold by Christie's in 1996. It seems to be a smaller version of the painting by Leighton which was exhibited in 1885. The original is the same pose but rather different. I love her name.
http://www.worldgallery.co.uk/giclee-print/Lady-Sybil-Primrose-215835.html
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Lady-Sybil-Primrose-Posters_i1946455_.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Grant
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thomas Faed
[The Silken Gown]
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfaed.htm
http://victorianartinbritain.co.uk/biog/faed.htm
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/faed.htm
[Last of the Clan]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2007/05/15/bafleming115.xml
Thomas Faed (1826 - 1900) was the son of a millwright and the brother of John Faed. He specialised in painting Scottish peasant life. He was very popular in his day and his pictures commanded high prices, but went blind in the last seven years of his life.
A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage book
The Lives of Marie Spartali Stillman and William James Stillman
by David B. Elliot
PUBLISHER: Antique Collectors' Club
Size: 8.5 in x 11 in.
PAGES: 248
ILLUSTRATIONS: 91 col.
[Marie Spartali Stillman]
[A Rose from Armida's Garden] 1894
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Spartali_Stillman
Herbert James Draper
A Life Study
by Simon Toll
PUBLISHER: Antique Collectors' Club
TERRITORY: USA and Canada
Size: 8.5 in x 11 in.
PAGES: 160
ILLUSTRATIONS: 54 col., 123 b&w
[Lament for Icarus] 1898
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_James_Draper
Benjamin Williams Leader
His Life & Paintings
by Ruth Wood
PUBLISHER: Antique Collectors' Club
Size: 8.5 in x 11 in.
PAGES: 148
ILLUSTRATIONS: 64 col., 50 b&w
[A Welsh Cornfield] 1862
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Williams_Leader
Myles Birket Foster - Gathering Lilac
http://www.artfund.org/artwork/9158/gathering-lilac
http://www.godalming-museum.org.uk/history/foster.html
1825 - 1899.
Originally an illustrator, from 1859 he painted almost exclusively water colours, often featuring children in a landscape.
Marcus B. Huish, Birket Foster, his Life and Work (1890)
Saturday, March 29, 2008
William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hunt.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_the_World
John Atkinson Grimshaw - Piccadilly at Night
signed and dated Atkinson Grimshaw/+/1885-6
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25"
Piccadilly looking towards Piccadilly Circus with Burlington House on the left.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/1998/03/21/bagrim21.xml
Charles Spencelayh various
[Here's to Victory]
oil on canvas
20 x 24"
[Our Polly]
oil on canvas
8 x 6"
[Poacher]
oil on panel
8.5 x 6.5"
Frederic Leighton - Head of a Girl
oil on canvas
17 x 16"
believed to be painted during a visit to Ireland in Sept 1895, not long before he died in 1896.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Leighton,_1st_Baron_Leighton
Friday, March 28, 2008
W. Anstey Dollond
[Classical Beauties]
fl. 1879 - 1889.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/714852/w-anstey-dollond.html
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Arthur Drummond
[Making Attar of Roses in Old Greek Temple] 1894
signed A Drummond 94 c.r.
oil on canvas
36 x 26 1/4"
http://www.rehs.com/arthur_drummond_victorian_fantasy.html
Walter Crane - Peacocks
['Bluebeard and Gloriana' - Peacocks on the terrace at Rode Hall, Cheshire] 1871
signed with monogram 1871 l.r.
watercolour, bodycolour and coloured chalks
11.5 x 17.5"
Rode Hall (Cheshire) was the home of Mr and Mrs Randle Wilbraham, friends of the artist in the late 1860's. It was exhibited at the Dudley Gallery.
Oliver Rhys
[Patience] 1895
fl. 1876 - 1893.
http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2002/John_William_Godward/godward15.asp
http://www.artnet.com/artist/14184/oliver-rhys.html
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Charles Frederick Lowcock
[In the Temple] 1881
fl. 1878 - 1922.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/22256/charles-frederick-lowcock.html
George Percy Jacomb-Hood
[Entangled] 1899
signed G P JACOMB-HOOD/1899
oil on canvas
58.5 x 38.5"
exhibited RA 1899
1857 - 1929.
http://130.209.96.254/biog/Hood_GPJ.htm
Percy Tarrant
[A Frosty Morning, Bringing Home the Bargain] 1889
http://www.artnet.com/artist/16423/percy-tarrant.html
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Edgar Bundy - The Rose Grower
[The Rose Grower] 1901
signed EDGAR BUNDY l.r.
oil on canvas
36 x 24"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bundy
http://www.artnet.com/artist/3315/edgar-bundy.html
Leonard Charles Nightingale
[Welcome Visitors]
http://www.artnet.com/artist/690609/leonard-charles-nightingale.html
Monday, March 24, 2008
John Brett - The Stonebreaker
1857 - 8
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displayPicture.asp?id=7&venue=2
William Frederick Yeames - And when did you last see your father?
#1878.
1835 - 1918.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/lastseefather/index.asp
Frederick Roe
[Beating the Bounds - Tower of London] c. 1902
1864 - 1947.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/roe.htm
http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/traditions/beating.html
Arthur Wardle
[The Reward]
1864 - 1949.
http://www.burlington.co.uk/gallery/artist/biography?contentId=1404
[A Hot Meal]
Delapoer Downing
[Secret Garden of Dreams]
signed Delapoer DOWNING
oil on canvas
20 x 30 1/4"
fl. 1885 - 1902.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/662951/delapoer-downing.html
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5258828
Sunday, March 23, 2008
John Singer Sargent - Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
1882
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Daughters_of_Edward_Darley_Boit.htm
Arthur Hughes - The Long Engagement
[The Long Engagement] 1853-55 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
[Fair Rosamund] 1854 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1832 - 1915.
One of the most talented of the Pre Raphaelite influenced painters, though his skill at painting seems to have declined after about 1870, though he still produced some wonderful illustrations. Of Welsh parentage, his ruddy cheeks earnt him the nickname 'Cherry'. Rossetti said of all his male friends, Hughes was the sweetest and had the most ingenuous nature, the least carking and querulous, and the freest from envy, hatred and malice, and all uncharitableness.
The Babylonian Marriage Market - Edwin Long
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Long
http://www.allartclassic.com/author_biography.php?p_number=86
This was a large painting (68 x 120 inches, oil on canvas) commissioned by Edward Hermon MP. The price was a reputed 1,700 guineas an enormous sum for the time. The subject is from George C. Swayne's The History of Herodatus which includes a description of the marriage auction of the Babylonians.
The painting was an enormous success and gained him an Associateship of the RA. It took two years to paint and notices in the journals of 1875 were ecstatic. Critics agreed on the quality of the colour, its 'spirit and dramatic power'. Large crowds came to see it and Long concentrated on Egyptian scenes after this.
[Preparing for the Festival of Anubis] 1889
http://www.allartclassic.com/pictures.php?p=1&p_number=86&forder=1&countsp=15