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As with many of Waterhouse’s single-figure pictures of women, Miranda is a legendary, mystical woman withdrawn from the world.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