“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…
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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…
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….
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…
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,…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 