This is a preliminary study for the murals that the artist Frank Weston Benson (1862—1951) painted in the Library of Congress in 1897. The graceful, mannered pose of the...
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As with many of Waterhouse’s single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world.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...
“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have...
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...
“As the Sun colours flowers, so art colours life.” — Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, In a Rose Garden, 1889, Private collection. Source: Wikimedia...
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...
‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ is a Pre-Raphaelites painting inspired by Keats’ poem from 1819. It describes an encounter between a knight and a mysterious fairy lady. The...
Julius Kronberg (1850—1921) was a Swedish artist and decorative painter. He was born in Karlskrona. Already at the age of fourteen, he was accepted at the Art Academy...
“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...
When I fall in love, it will be forever ❤️ Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Love stories through paintings from private collections. Romance requires privacy ❤️ Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Léon François Comerre (1850—1916) was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women and Oriental themes. The colourful flowers on girl’s head...
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...
“The Spirit of the Southern Cross” from 1888 represents a cross-shaped constellation lying in the Milky Way near Centaurus. The four brightest stars form a cross, the...
While the primary version of L'Aurore was exhibited at the 1868 Salon in Paris, and bought by the State, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Saint Lô, it was destroyed during...
The mists, here personified as sensuous nude female figures floating weightlessly through an idyllic alpine landscape, are both drawn toward the sun’s light streaming...
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...
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