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Alfred Munnings: A Huntsman Riding Through a Thicket
“Living at Church Farm in Swainsthorpe from around 1903 until 1911, Munnings often rode with the Norwich Staghounds: ‘Hunting became a part of my life, and I saw many things on those days: bright winter sunlight on clipped horses and scarlet coats; on bare trees; stacks; on farmhouse gables; the riding out after a slight…
Cedric Morris: Winter Flowers
“Each flower is imbued with a distinct personality, which is so well observed that horticulturalists can identify the exact species depicted by Morris in his flower paintings. In this still life, two tall Ornithogalum saundersiae tower over the composition, competing only with a few green iris seed pods. A dark blue Salvia and lighter purple…
Dame Laura Knight: In the Sun, Newlyn
“In the Sun, Newlyn was made around 1909, and is a distillation of a hot, carefree Edwardian summer… The Knights had taken lodgings in the village of Paul with the cheerful, eccentric Mrs Beer, who owned the Penzer House guest house; from their rooms ‘the whole stretch of the bay could be seen and grey…
Philip de Laszlo: Master of Portraiture
“Philip de László was one of the most stylish and successful portrait painters of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Like John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), he was an exponent of the fluidly-painted ‘swagger portrait’, but always managed to capture a sense of the sitter’s interior life, sometimes with a tinge of…
“How Can I Keep From Singing?”
My life goes on in endless song; Above earth’s lamentation,I hear the ring of a far off bell That hails a new creation;Above the tomb of Endless strife I hear its music ringing;It sounds an echo in my soul— How can I keep from singing?While tho’ the tempest around me roars I hear the truth;…
Philip de Laszlo: The Golden Guinness Girl
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John William Waterhouse: Fair Rosamund
“Like many of the early Pre-Raphaelites who came before him, John William Waterhouse found inspiration in the romantic narratives of the Middle-Ages. While based loosely on verifiable facts, the legend of Rosamund and Queen Eleanor is likely as much of a fairy tale as it is an accurate account… Waterhouse…depicts the moment in which Queen Eleanor…
William Nicholson: Sunflowers
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Graham Sutherland: Study of Winston Churchill
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Frank Cadogan Cowper: Vanity
“Although Cowper did not belong to a particular artistic group this, like many of his paintings, relates to the work of artists now known as ‘Second Generation Pre-Raphaelites’. Decorative and richly coloured, ‘Vanity’ suggests the romance of the past and alludes to notions of the chivalric and courtly love.” Royal Academy UK “The title of…
Cedric, Sokolov, and Schubert
“Morris would grow his colourful subject matter in the garden at Pound Farm where he also had a studio, and one of his ex-students, Joan Warburton (1920–1996), later reminisced how ‘to go in there quietly when Cedric was painting the favourite of all his flowers, Irises, was a revelation.’ It was Morris’s incredibly close contact…
Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June
“According to Leighton, the composition was inspired by the posture of a tired model. He elaborated her sinuous pose and then added sheer orange draperies. Her skin flushed by the sun, she is transformed into a personification of summer heat. The image reflects Leighton’s allegiance to artistic ideals that emphasized harmonious color and form over…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth
“Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth had appeared at the RA in 1917…one of four pictures he submitted that year, the others being portraits. The First World War still had a year to run, and the picture may make oblique reference to the crisis. The themes of motherhood, fecundity and regeneration, not to…
Dame Laura Knight: A Moment’s Rest
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Harold Knight: Alfred Munnings Reading
“The recent discovery of Harold Knight’s Alfred Munnings Reading…sheds new light on a fascinating moment in the early careers of both artist and sitter. When embarking on her ballet picture, Carnaval…, for reasons that remain obscure, Laura Knight selected a canvas which was stretched on top of a work by her husband, and only when…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)
“Christ’s mother Mary (modelled by Rosetti’s sister, Christina) is shown here as a girl. She works on an embroidery with her mother (portrayed by Rosetti’s mother, Frances). In the background, Mary’s father is shown pruning a vine. The painting is full of Christian symbolism. The palm branch and thorn on the floor represent Christ. The…
Cedric Morris: The Easter Bouquet (1934)
Cedric Morris (1889–1982) was a painter of the natural world and one of the most original British artists of the twentieth century. “It was Morris’s incredibly close contact with his subject and deep understanding of their design that enabled him to paint flowers as if they were people – with a mood and personality.” Lawrence…
Matthew West: When God Whispers Your Name
“Although this picture was executed earlier, it appears to have been reworked by Hacker in 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War. This accounts for the painting being signed twice, once lower right, and later lower left. To add poignancy, an eagle (symbol of the German Empire) hovers upper right, while the figure…
Frank Cadogan Cowper: The Patient Griselda
“The subject is taken from the tenth tale of the tenth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, a story rendered into Latin by Petrarch and adapted by Chaucer for the ‘Clerk’s Tale’ in the Canterbury Tales. The Marquis of Saluzzo is persuaded by his subjects to marry, and chooses as his wife a humble peasant girl, Griselda….
John William Waterhouse: Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus
“The depiction of this mythic moment is unique within Victorian painting, and possibly within all of British art. Through the late 19th Century, Symbolist artists and writers had grown evermore enthusiastic about Orpheus, the greatest poet and musician in Greek myth, because he, like so many creative individuals, sang the truth and thus aroused resentment….
William Nicholson : Double Anemones (1921)
“Here Nicholson employs an almost square format, which is unusual for him, and the rich, dark background of his pre-war still lifes makes a return. The scarlet, purple, pink and white anemones in a simple white mug with painted decoration are standing on a thin white cloth, partially covering a plain wooden table. Silver and…
James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales
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Frank Cadogan Cowper: The Blue Bird (1918)
“The Blue Bird appeared at the RA in 1918, the last year of the Great War. Military images dominated the exhibition and the picture must have struck an incongruous note amid the portraits of generals, tributes to indomitable Tommies, romanticised accounts of ‘bringing up the guns’, and poignant war memorials…The picture does, however, undoubtedly relate…
Sir Henry Raeburn: Portrait of Sarah Wordsworth (c. 1820)
“Romanticism and realism collide in this exemplary work by Sir Henry Raeburn. Painted towards the end of his career this portrait perfectly speaks the words of Scottish writer John Brown, who famously said of Raeburn: ‘He paints the truth, and he paints it with love.’[1] READ FULL ESSAY: Philip Mould & Co Thanks for Visiting…
A Little Mozart, A Little Munnings
“Munnings frequently experimented with this theme of a huntsman manoeuvering through thick brush approaching a bank or ditch and this is typical of his style at this date. His own hunting experiences often inspired his vision and it is probable that this horse is ‘the brown mare’ whom Munnings describes in his memoirs as ‘a…
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Annunciation (c.1849)
“Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli (1445-1510) and Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Rossetti sought in this work a radical reinterpretation of the Annunciation. Traditionally the Virgin was depicted in studious contemplation, reading a missal at a prie-dieu; but here Rossetti shows her rising awkwardly from a low bed, as if disturbed…
Dame Laura Knight: The Nuremberg Trial
“Knight was appointed a ‘war correspondent’ for this commission and made a special BBC broadcast from Nuremberg. She gained special access to the broadcasting box just above the prisoners where she was able to make charcoal studies of the main protagonists amongst the lawyers and the accused. Her painting reproduces faithfully the courtroom scene and…
John William Waterhouse: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
“…the composition’s date of 1909 and its similarity to a number of Waterhouse’s compositions in following years marks it as the first in a series inspired by the story of Persephone—in which the innocent girl, picking flowers on the plain of Enna, is abducted by Pluto; in anguish, her mother, the harvest goddess Demeter, curses…
John Constable: Cornfield (1826)
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