The artist’s wife Mary modelled for the figure, and the garden belonged to Holland House in Kensington. Artist John Young-Hunter (1874—1955) was born in Glasgow and...
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“Cottage on Fire at Night” reads as a study in different forms of illumination and their respective emotional effects. On the left, melancholic ruins are bathed in the...
In the late 1700s, the city of Rome threw a massive fireworks festival called the ‘Girandola’ each year on Easter Monday. The Girandola festival gave its name to a...
This nocturnal scene features dramatic contrasts: the hot red light of the fire versus the cool white moonlight, the cottage abruptly consumed by flames as opposed to...
This is an early, unfinished version of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ‘The Blessed Damozel‘ (1875-8, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University). The picture was begun in September...
English painter Abraham Pether (1756—1812) was also a musician and inventor, constructing telescopes and microscopes for his own use, and lectured on electricity using...
Marine painter and lithographer, born at Pontefract, Yorkshire, Charles Pears (1873—1958) was the founder and first president of the Society of Marine Artists in 1939....
English landscape and marine painter Edward William Cooke (1811—1880) visited Venice for the first time in 1850, and he spent much of his time out on the Lagoon...
A landscape painter Bertram Priestman (1868—1951) was born in Yorkshire, England, the son of an art collector and Bradford businessman. After travelling to Egypt,...
Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period Giuseppe Bonito (1707—1789), a favourite at the court of King Carlos and who, in 1748, had executed a series of nine paintings of...
Emily Treslove was John Constable’s (1776—1837) neighbour in Charlotte Street, the central London address of his spacious studio. In various diary entries, Emily...
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1841 alongside its pendant “Pandemonium” (Musée du Louvre, Paris), this magnificent painting is a masterpiece by one of the most...
“Autumn Gold” is an iconic composition that showcases Grimshaw’s (1836—1893) mastery of light and atmosphere. The sense of mystery is enhanced by the atmospheric golden...
English Victorian-era artist John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836—1893) painted a series of views of suburban streets in London and Yorkshire from the 1870s onwards and in the...
The model for this work was the artist’s first wife, and fellow painter, Mary Young-Hunter. The couple met as students at the Royal Academy and married the year this was...
William Bruce Ellis Ranken (1881—1941) was a Scottish artist and Edwardian aesthete. While in America, John Singer Sargent introduced him to a leading American art...
Representing the story of Penelope, from Homer’s Odyssey, the painting focuses upon the figure of Penelope herself, her loom and the Ionian landscape beyond. A small...
Talbot Hughes (1869—1942) was a British painter (of genre, history and landscape), a collector of historical costumes and miniature portraits, and writer on fine art and...
Thomas Edwin Mostyn (1864—1930) was a British painter. In 1918, he moved to Devon where he concentrated on a series of enchanted garden scenes for which he would become...
In “Ensigns of Spring” the three figures are all closely associated with flowers emblematic of this season: the bluebell, the lily, the orchid, the iris, and so on. They...
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