
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...

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...

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) was an English painter known for his landscapes, genre scenes, portraits and for his dramatic use of light and shadow. Joseph Wright...

‘Wright of Derby: From the Shadows’ is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings at the National Gallery 🕯️ With over 20...

Mary Little was from a small village just outside Bath, a fashionable spa town in the southwest of England. With a confident gaze and small smile, she holds a nosegay of...

“Come back... even as a shadow, even as a dream...” — Euripides. Parker Hagarty, Grief, 19th century, Private collection. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Gustav Pope (1831—1910) was a British Victorian painter of Austrian origin. After his migration from Austria, he entered the country’s artistic scene through the...

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” — Émile Zola. Tuke Henry Scott, Miss Muriel Lubbock, 1898,...

Bennett Oates (1928—2009) was born in London in 1928. He had a broad interest in painting and examples of his portraiture, landscape and animal paintings can be found in...

In this massive painting, celebrated British landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775—1851) pursued a theme of longstanding interest to him: the sea. On the...

Sidney Richard Percy (1821—1886) was a highly successful English landscape painter, working in Devon, Lake District, North Wales and later in life, Scotland. There...

One of the most iconic of English Jacobean painters, William Larkin (c. 1585—1619) was renowned for his shimmering portraits of members of the court of James I of...

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,...

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." — Marcel Proust. Beatrice Emma Parsons, Statuette and...

Beatrice Emma Parsons (1870—1955) was a British painter and is best known for her watercolours of garden subjects. She began painting, almost exclusively, garden subject...

A British artist Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861—1952) was also an uncle of a famous actor Laurence Olivier. He exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy and the...

Richard Miller (1875—1943) was a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists in France, a group inspired by the famous resident of Giverny, Claude Monet....

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." — William Blake, Auguries of...

Alfred Glendening Jr. (1861—1907) was an important Victorian artist who was able to capture light with great sensitivity. He was born into an artistic family in 1861....

Irish born William John Hennessy (1839—1917) established himself as a painter and illustrator in New York before settling in England in 1870, and becoming a member of a...

“There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air.” — Mark Twain, The...

Beatrice Emma Parsons (1870—1955) was an exceptional English garden painter. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889-99, but...

British female painter Beatrice Emma Parsons (1870—1955) chooses this pivotal moment of the Annunciation to portray the innocence and vulnerability of a young woman...

English painter John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and...

The English painter Edmund Blair Leighton (1852—1922) quickly developed a preference for paintings on historical themes and medieval subjects. His paintings represent a...

Augustus Osborne Lamplough (1877—1930) was an English Orientalist painter and illustrator; known for his scenes of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, and other parts of North...

Trained in the Continental academic tradition, befriended by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and elected President of the Royal Academy, Frederic Leighton (1830—1896) was...

For today, the very last painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882), an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. This oil on panel painting, from 1882, titled “Joan of Arc”....

A dominant, full length female figure, in emerald green robe, gazes towards the viewer, her long thick wavy hair flowing down her back. She has one leg placed forward,...

The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828—1882), an English painter, poet, illustrator,...
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