British Art: September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Angels

[Angels Watching the Crown of Thorns and the Rod with which Christ was Scourged]

oil on canvas

painted in 1848 when Rossetti was working in the studio of Ford Madox Brown. It seems to be unfinished in parts. It was rediscoverec in the 70's and offered for auction at Sotherby's in 2006.

G. F. Watts - portrait

[portrait of Miss Chariclea Ionides, later Dannreuther]

oval, oil on panel laid on panel

Chariclea was the fifth and last child of Alexander Constantine and Euterpe Ionides and was born in 1844. This was painted about 1849. She married the pianist Edward Dannreuther in 1871.

William Holman Hunt - portrait

thought to be of Isabella Waugh

oil on canvas

painted about 1866 and seems to have been unfinished before he set out for his trip to the Holy Land. He may just have run out of time. Isabella was one of the Waugh sisters, of which Hunt married two - Fanny (who died in 1866) and later Edith (in 1875). In English law this was technically illegal and the Waugh family were opposed to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Hunt

Charles Spencelayh

[Our Polly]

oil on canvas

[The Final Feather] 1928

oil on canvas

Monday, September 29, 2008

Charles Spencelayh - The Collector

oil on panel

12 x 10"

John Edward Southall - portrait

[portrait of Edward Martin Baker] 1907

tempera and gold paint on panel

signed with monogram and dated l.r. JES/1907

8 x 6"

1861 - 1944.

http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/painting/southall/bio1.html

William B. Fortescue - A Ploughing Match, Cornwall

1891

oil on canvas

signed W.B.Fortescue/1891

with title and artists address

40 x 72"

fl. 1880 - 1901 d. 1924.

http://www.mpfa.ie/fortescue.htm

(with biography)

Sunday, September 28, 2008

John Morgan - A Moment of Affection

oil on canvas

signed John Morgan l.r.

50 x 38"

http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/jury/artist.htm

Harry Brooker - The Great Performance

1890

oil on canvas

signed Harry Brooker/1890

28 x 36"

http://www.harrybrooker.org.uk/

Nathaniel Hughes John Baird

oil on canvas

signed with monogram l.r. NHB

72 X 36.5"

exhibited RA 1895

b 1865, fl. 1883 - 1935.

http://artprints.leeds.gov.uk/index.cfm?event=catalogue.artist&artistID=8168

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/8168/Nathaniel_Hughes_John_Baird

http://www.historicalportraits.com/InternalMain.asp?ItemID=594

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys - Portrait of Mrs Christy

[Portrait of Mrs Christy and her two sons, Stephen and Basil]

signed F Sandys 1900 l.l.

coloured chalks over traces of pencil on a backboard

Mrs Christy was the daughter of Admiral Sir G. Phipps Hornby.

She married Henry Edmund Christy (1865 - 1931) of Lordington, Emsworth, near Chichester.

Both these sons died in the Great War (WWI). Apparently the two boys were rather troublesome during the sitting, particularly Stephen who kept turning his head away.

Stephen was born in 1896, Basil the year after.

John William Godward - A Choice Blossom

1918

Watercolour

this is a version of a larger oil painting of the same year

(Sir) Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Study head Andromeda

[Study for the head of Andromeda in the painting 'The Rock of Doom']

pencil

1885

Kenneth Denton Shoesmith

sold at Sotheby's 1998

these pictures depicting the main events of the Spanish Armada were commissioned by the First Lord Vestry for his dining room at Kingswood (in Dulwich). Later they were presented to Radley College where they hung until 1976.

1890 - 1939.

all oil on canvas

http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/look-and-learn/object-of-the-month/18

http://www.postershop.com/Shoesmith-Kenneth-Denton-p.html