“In Christian iconography, Cecilia is the patron saint of music. The connection to music relates to the early accounts of Cecilia’s life. According to these, Cecilia did not want to hear musical instruments because she wanted to remain pure to be able to hear heavenly music. Saint Cecilia is based on a verse from Alfred…
Category: British art
A Tragic Self-Portrait at Sea: The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown
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Sir Alfred James Munnings: Jogging On (1912)
“Munnings often used his own horses and groom as models and this horse, Patrick, despite his cropped tail and banged mane, was a particular favourite. On this grey day, the artist used a subdued palette yet adds life and brightness by juxtaposing the scarlet of the huntsman’s jacket with the close vivid hues of green…
Marie Spartali Stillman: The Last Sight of Fiammetta
The present work is the first of Stillman’s based on Rossetti’s translations from Boccaccio, where a sonnet entitled ‘The Last Sight of Fiammetta’ describes what seems to be the death of the beloved: Round her red garland and her golden hairI saw a fire about Fiammetta’s head;Thence to a little cloud I watch’d it fade,Than…
Alexandre Tharaud: Les barricades mystérieuses (Couperin)
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Ford Madox Brown: Work (1865)
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Andrew Lloyd-Webber: A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites
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The Curse of the Lady of Shalott
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Donna Stewart: The Wexford Carol
Good people all, this Christmas time, Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending his beloved son With Mary holy we should pray, To God with love this Christmas Day In Bethlehem upon that morn, There was a blessed Messiah born. The night before that happy tide,…
John William Waterhouse: Juliet
“Here we see a lovely girl wearing a richly-coloured gown that closely resembles Mariana’s in its cut. Endowed with unusually curly hair (for Waterhouse), Juliet grasps her luxurious blue necklace nervously. She is presented in the full profile perfected by Italian Renaissance artists; for most of the 15th Century, privileged maidens ready to be married…
Leaving Home: Ford Madox Brown’s The Last of England (1855)
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Dame Laura Knight: Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park
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Paul Delaroche: Sainte Amélie, Reine de Hongrie
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Dame Laura Knight: ‘I Paint Today’
“At the Edge of the Cliff is one of the strongest works in this clifftop series. The young woman in her striking striped blue and white skirt and white jumper has a timeless quality to her, her outfit feeling as modern to a contemporary audience as it did over 100 years ago. She stands on the…
Alfred Sisley: Matinée d’octobre près de Port-Marly (c1876)
“Painted following the First Impressionist Exhibition in April 1874—which had opened the eyes of the public to the revolutionary Impressionist aesthetic—and around the time of its second iteration which helped cement the validity of its new, modern terminology, Matinée d’octobre près de Port-Marly pays fitting homage to the movement’s pursuit of painting en plein air. Determined to capture…
Debussy’s Clair de Lune II
Clair de Lune Your soul is a chosen landscape On which masks and Bergamasques cast enchantment as they go, Playing the lute, and dancing, and all but Sad beneath their fantasy-disguises. Singing all the while, in the minor mode, Of all-conquering love and life so kind to them They do not seem to believe in…
Without Hands: Sarah Biffin II
Click here to listen to artist Alison Lapper and portrait miniatures specialist Emma Rutherford discussing the art of Sarah Biffin on the eve of the opening of “Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin. The exhibition is dedicated to the life and artistic achievemtns of this remarkable artist and is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue as well…
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst: The War Widow (1923)
This painting was originally titled Andromache by the artist when it was painted in circa 1923 [fig. 1]. This initial title references the Greek princess recorded in Homer’s Iliad, who lost every male member of her family during the Trojan War. This portrait, painted in the aftermath of the Second World War, consequently assumes a…
Without Hands: Sarah Biffin I
“Made to accompany the exhibition “Without Hands”: The Art of Sarah Biffin (from 1 November until 21 December, 2022), this film traces the life and art of this remarkable artist and reveals how Philip Mould & Company weaved the pieces of her untold story. Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) is one of history’s most resolute, entrepreneurial, and…
Autumn: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Leo Putz
Autumn Song By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf? And how the swift beat of the brain Falters because it is…
Cyprien Katsaris: Schumann, Kinderszenen, Op. 15
0:09– From foreign Lands and People 2:11– Curious Story 3:09– Catch me if you can 3:38– Entreating Child 4:25– Perfect Happiness 5:48– An Important Event 6:40– Dreaming 9:33– By the Fireside 10:19– Knight of the Rocking-Horse 10:53– Almost too serious 12:40– Frightening 14:08– Child falling asleep 16:32– The Poet Speaks Hat Tip Many thanks to…
James Jebusa Shannon: The Flower Girl (1900)
“Painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down to the beach; she consented to sit to Shannon in her ordinary working clothes and is shown nursing her baby. The artist’s daughter Kitty (op….
George Clausen: Brown Eyes (1891)
“Clausen studied in France and painted open-air ‘rural naturalist’ subjects in an impressionist style. In 1886 he helped to found the New English Art Club as an alternative exhibition venue to the Royal Academy. This is a portrait of a local girl from the village of Cookham in Berkshire, where the artist was living. The…
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: The Three Marys
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John Singer Sargent: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-86)
The title comes from the song ‘The Wreath’, by the eighteenth-century composer of operas Joseph Mazzinghi, which was popular in the 1880s. Sargent and his circle frequently sang around the piano at Broadway. The refrain of the song asks the question ‘Have you seen my Flora pass this way?’ to which the answer is ‘Carnation,…
Isobel Lilian Gloag: Four Corners to my Bed
‘Four corners to my bed Four angels round my head Matthew, Mark, Luke & John Bless the bed that I lie on’ What Does This Mean? James Greig explains this rhyme in his essay “Isobel Lilian Gloag and Her Work“, published in The Magazine of Art, Volume 26 in 1902: ” [This] is a…
Hauser & Trotovsek: Passacaglia (Handel-Halvorsen)
“In many of his late paintings, Turner used vigorous brushstrokes and loosely defined forms to explore dramatic struggles between human beings and the elements. This work shows a storm raging in an English harbor town. Flares explode in the sky to alert ships to the location of shallow (shoal) water. On the shore huddled spectators…
Cedric Morris: May Flowering Irises No. 2 (1935)
“By 1935, when this work was painted, Morris’s fascination with irises had firmly taken hold. He established a studio in the garden where he would sit and paint his flower subjects for days on end, and one ex-student, Joan Warburton, poignantly reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of…
Dame Laura Knight: The Fairgrounds, Penzance (c.1916)
Who Was Dame Laura Knight? Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) was an English artist in the figurative, realist tradition who embraced English Impressionism. According to Tate.org “Influenced by Impressionism and the Newlyn School in Cornwall, Knight’s subject-matter is contemporary without being avant-garde. Dismissed by Modernists for her lack of interest in formal experiment, Knight’s insistent realism…
Marie Spartali Stillman: Beatrice (1895)
Who Is Maria Spartali Stillman? Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman, (1844 –1927), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter and model, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement. During a sixty-year career, she produced over one hundred and fifty works, contributing regularly to exhibitions in Great Britain and the United States. (2) One Dante Is Never…
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