British Art: February 2009

oil on canvas

exhibited at the RA in 1891

[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/

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

oil on canvas

the final picture was exhibited at the RA in 1848

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.

[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

[George Owen Wynne Apperley self portrait]

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

[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)

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

[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