English painter William Larkin (c. 1585—1619) received portrait commissions from the court of King James I of England and members of the country gentry. The model of...
Поиск по хэштегам
Поиск
#britishart
A nymph, naked except for a thin strip of seaweed draped across her lower body, opens a large oyster shell, where the little baby lies asleep. Herbert James Draper, A...
A museum experience like no other 🖼️💚 Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world’s most important collections of European Old Master paintings of the 1600s and...
A renowned British marine artist Montague Dawson (1890—1973) was clearly inspired by the notorious pirates of the 17th century and produced a number of atmospheric and...
As with many of Waterhouse’s single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world. Her expression hidden from the viewer in...
Making something beautiful from a sad dramatic story was one of Waterhouse’s intrinsic talents. “Isabella and the Pot of Basil” is a scene from John Keats’s poem...
The symbolism of pure white lilies and deep red roses suggest the present work’s title of Love and Purity. Trained at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited almost every...
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” — Emily Dickinson. John William Waterhouse, The Bouquet, Falmouth Art Gallery, UK @falmouthartgallery...
Fanny Cornforth, the artist’s mistress, was the model for this striking image. The cornflowers at the front refer to her name and the passion flowers suggest her fiery...
Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868—1947) was first a student at the Birmingham School of Art and then one of its prominent and enduring instructors in design on flat surfaces...
The warm glow of light in the present watercolour is particularly characteristic. It was previously in the collection of H.R.H. Anne, The Princess Royal from 1966. It’s...
John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) associated women with the beauty, simplicity, and decay of flowers. Moreover, he valued flowers and women as vessels of the seeds of...
John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) had long been fascinated with the violent aspects of ancient myth. He imagined “Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus” as a scene of...
The lilacs here represent early love, and the lady’s dress style and star necklace imply innocence. ‘The Lady with the Lilacs’ was first owned by Lewis Carroll, author...
Rome-born English artist John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) painted classical themes in the Academic style before embracing the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...
The most famous British countryside landscape paintings are on display at the free new exhibition ‘Discover Constable & The Hay Wain’. Until 2 February 2025 🍂🦌🍁☕️...
This motif was revisited in a number of pictures, in which figures, sometimes posed by family or friends, are glimpsed through a halo of roses. A later work, painted in...
In the beginning of the 20th century Sir John Lavery (1856—1941) was already an internationally acclaimed artist in the UK and France, renowned for female portraits that...
The children lighting lanterns are Dolly and Polly Barnard. American painter John Singer Sargent (1856—1925) wanted to paint them from real life. There were only a few...
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” — Euripides. Bennett Oates, Hollyhocks and Peonies, Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase, on a Marble Ledge,...
“The Vision” by female painter Evelyn de Morgan (1855—1919), is an allegory of the First World War. It depicts two women in the foreground, as the personification of...
What’s your favourite ‘Angel’ painting? 🕊️🪽🎨 Source: Wikimedia Commons.
In this painting the element of rain, thunder and lightning are personified as female spirits, causing chaos and turbulence in the sea below them. A figure with red...
A triumphant return of Frederic Leighton’s ‘Flaming June’ to the Royal Academy of Arts, while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairs. The painting will be displayed...
John William Godward (1861—1922) was a master of classical subject paintings which are stylistically similar to the work of Victorian artists Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...
Exhibited in 1897 at the Royal Academy in London, “A Fan-maker” is a wonderful example of Perugini’s (1839—1918) fascination with combining classicism with the...
The art critic Marion Spielmann wrote, in 1898, that Perugini was “the painter par excellence of the siesta, the recorder, in delicate color and harmonious line, of the...
Albert Julius Olsson (1864—1942) was a British landscape artist. He was born in Islington, London, to a Swedish father and an English mother. Olsson had no formal...
This mountainous landscape oil painting is by British Victorian artist Arthur Severn (1842—1931). He was a life long friend of John Ruskin, who encouraged him to turn to...
The poet Alfred Tennyson first published his ballad of the Lady of Shalott in 1833. It told the tale of a Lady confined to a tower, where she must weave a magic web...
чтобы продолжить
