
As with many of Waterhouse’s single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world.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...

As with many of Waterhouse’s single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world.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...

“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...

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...

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...

John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) presented this painting to the Royal Academy after his election as an Academician. From the 1880s Waterhouse exhibited at the Royal...

British artist John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) seems to have conceived “The Siren” around the same time that he began a similarly sized painting A Mermaid (Royal...

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...

John William Waterhouse (1849—1917) was an English painter of mystery, beauty and dreams. Continuing the Pre-Raphaelite tradition, and adding a few Impressionistic...

Angus Trumble describes the painting “Circe Invidiosa” as "one of the most remarkable images of the femme fatale in Victorian art.” The Homeric character of Circe is in...

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