British Art: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Theodore Gerard - The Newborn Child

1885

oil on canvas

Belgian, 1829 - 1895.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/20735/theodore-gerard.html

http://www.richard-green.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=39167

Henry Gillard Glindoni - The Brave deserve the Fair

oil on canvas

exhibited at the RA in 1891

Frank Moss Bennett

[Gloria Regina] 1941

oil on canvas

1874 - 1953.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/2305/frank-moss-bennett.html

(including artworks currently for sale)

http://www.fmb-theforgottenartist.co.uk/

George Goodwin Kilburne - Family Matters

oil on canvas

Abraham Solomon - Sketch

[Sketch for 'A Ballroom in the year 1760']

oil on canvas

the final picture was exhibited at the RA in 1848

Friday, February 27, 2009

Sophie Anderson - The Lace Handkerchief

oil on canvas

not dated but probably late 1850's - early 1860's.

The model is probably the daughter of the artist and the same as appears in her famous No Walk Today. Characteristically she has used dark colours in the background to highlight the lit face. Elements are minutely detailed which she tended away from later.

Charles Landseer

[The Declaration]
oil on canvas
.
1799 - 1879.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=322&page=1
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/lastseefather/landseeredgehill.asp

William Powell Frith - Incident

[Incident in the Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montague]

1872

oil on canvas

This note accompanied the painting when it was exhibited at the RA in 1872:

"Lady Bute, daughter of Lady Mary, relates the circumstances of having seen her grandfather, the Duke of Kingston, once only, with the following particulars.
Her Mother was dressig, and she playing about the room when there entered an elderly stranger, of dignified appearance and still handsome, with the authorative air of a person entitled to admittance at all times: upon which, to her great surprise, Lady Mary, instantly starting up from the toilet table, dishevelled as she was, fell on her knees to ask his blessing."

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

Ernest Walbourn - Mending

oil on canvas

https://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/Ernest-Walbourn-Posters_c63550_.htm

Thursday, February 26, 2009

John Byam Liston Shaw - Spring

[Spring]

Gouache on paper

biography and images

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7768&name=spring

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/2399/John_Byam_Liston_Shaw

Kelvingrove Art Gallery

http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=4

Arthur Hughes - That Was a Piedmontese

http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/gallery.asp?action=viewimage&categoryid=&text=Victorian+Painting&imageid=3246&box=&shownew=

Chris Beetles Gallery - Victorian pictures

[Vine Cottage - Helen Allingham]

http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/victorian.htm

Christopher Wood - Victorian watercolours

[George Owen Wynne Apperley self portrait]

http://www.christopherwoodgallery.com/pages/watercol.cfm

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Sophie Anderson - A Young Flower Seller

oil on canvas

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

Charles Sillem Lidderdale - A Spanish Beauty

oil on canvas

Edward Hughes - The Water Pitcher

1862

oil on panel

http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Hughes.Shrew.html

Joseph Bouvier - A Midsummer Dance

1856

oil on canvas

http://www.myartprints.co.uk/a/bouvier-joseph/young-girl-with-a-distaff.html

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Louis William Desanges

[A Group portrait of the Waldegrave Family and their friends at Strawberry Hill]

oil on canvas

The Countess Waldegrave and her husband, the Rt. Hon Chichester Fortescue with their friends in their drawing room at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. This gothic villa was originally owned by Horace Walpole.

b. 1822, fl. 1846 - 87.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/648588/louis-william-desanges.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/louis-william-desanges-1

(biography)

Charles Hunt - The Peace Maker

oil on canvas

Robert W. Wright - An Interesting Paragraph

1877

oil on panel

Edwin Thomas Roberts - Connemara Fish Girl

oil on canvas

http://store.encore-editions.com/VART/ACA19.html

Monday, February 23, 2009

Carl Bauerle

[Trophies of the Garden] '74

oil on canvas

1831 - c. 1909.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/557856/carl-wilhelm-friedrich-bauerle.html

http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/section.php?xSec=854

Sophie Anderson - Christmas Time - "Here's the Gobbler"

exhibited RA 1868

oil on canvas

Not a picture I personally like but she was just such a good artist

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

Charles Rossiter - Dressing up Kitty

oil on canvas
.
http://www.bmagic.org.uk/people/Charles+Rossiter
http://www.artnet.com/artist/646539/charles-rossiter.html

Frank Bindley - The Fisherman's Cottage

1881

oil on canvas

http://www.artnet.com/artist/555374/frank-bindley.html

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5177689

Sunday, February 22, 2009

John Anster Fitzgerald - Dreams

[The Artist's Dream] 1857

oil on millboard

Private Collection

the dreamer here is the artist himself who has fallen asleep at his easel. The beautiful fairy looking at him asleep is probably La Sylphide.

[The Nightmare] c. 1857-8

Watercolour on paper

Private Collection

here a girl writhes in anguish. This s probably the most overt drug induced painting in the dequence.

[The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of #1] c. 1858

oil on board

[The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of #2] 1858

oil on canvas

1823 - 1906.

Fitzgerald seems to have little formal training but from 1845 he was exhibiting at the RA and seems to have made his living as a portrait painter and illustrator (by the late 1850's he was a regular contributor to the Illustrated London News).

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Fitzgerald.html