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Cromwell on his Farm

Artist: Ford Madox Brown (British, 1821-1893)

Date: 1874

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Description

The central figure in this painting is the Civil War leader, Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658). Brown offers a humorous view of Cromwell as a gentleman farmer on his farm in St Ives. From his great white horse he directs the farm laborers who prepare the land for cultivation. The future revolutionary leader, however, is deep in thought and completely unaware of all the activity going on around him. He does not even notice his wife and children waiting outside the family house. Is he meditating on what he has just read in his Bible (the lines from Psalm 89 appear on the frame), or perhaps contemplating the political future of England, a country on the brink of civil war?

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The Pale Complexion of True Love

Artist: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (British, 1872 - 1945)

Date: 1899

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Description

The painting depicts a scene from the play As You Like It, Act III, Scene 4.

Corin, a shepherd, is speaking to the two heroines, Rosalind and Celia, about his fellow shepherd, Silvius, who loves the shepherdess Phebe in vain. He offers to show them a love-passage between the couple:

If you will see a pageant truly play'd, Between the pale complexion of true love And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain, Go hence a little, and I shall conduct you, If you will mark it.

Paolo and Francesca da Rimini

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: 1867

Medium: Watercolour, gouache and gum arabic over pencil on 2 sheets of paper

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Cecil Webb

Artist: John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

The sitter here is Cecil Webb, son of a distinguished Australian lawyer and King’s Counsel, Thomas Prout Webb. Cecil died aged nine in March 1886 and as the portrait is signed and dated 1887, it is presumed to be posthumous. In the 1880s Millais focused increasingly on child portraiture after he found he could no longer reliably sell a history or genre painting, by far his prefered subject matter. Millais usually painted from photographs of his subjects and it seems likely that the Webb family supplied Millais with a studio portrait of their deceased son upon which Millais based his likeness.

Forest Lovers

Artist: John Young the Hunter (British, 1874-1955)

Date: 1902

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

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Lady Lilith

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)

Date: 1866-1868 (altered 1872-1873)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Description

In the earliest version of this painting, begun in the late 1860s, the model for the central figure was Fanny Cornforth, who was Rossetti’s mistress for a time. However, the patron for whom it was painted objected to the overly sensuous nature of Cornforth’s figure and asked that it be altered. Rossetti reworked the composition using a new model, Alexa Wilding. Wilding was a dressmaker whom Rossetti apparently discovered one day while walking in London.

Four Corners to my Bed

Artist: Isobel Lilian Gloag (English, 1865–1917)

Date: c. 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Allegorical work highlighting the beauty and innocence of a newborn baby, serenaded by three angels with instruments while a fourth prays beside the bed.

‘Four corners to my bed Four angels round my head Matthew, Mark, Luke & John Bless the bed that I lie on’

Miranda

Artist: Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, 1829-1904)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

The Mystic Marriage

Artist: Circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic and gold on paper

Collection: Private Collection

Astarte Syriaca

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882)

Date: 1877

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

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By the Waters of Babylon

Artist: Evelyn de Morgan

Date: c. 1882-1883

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: De Morgan Foundation, London, United Kingdom

Description

Illustrates the Biblical story of the Exile of the Jews in Psalm 137:

“By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there, we hung up our lyres For there our captors required of us songs, And our tormentors, mirth, saying 'Sing us one of the Songs of Zion How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

The Writing Lesson

Artist: James Collinson (English, 1825-1881)

Date: 1855

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

Azaleas

Artist: Emma Sandys (British, 1843-1877)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Private Collection

Cupid and Psyche

Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)

Date: c. 1870

Medium: Watercolor, gouache and pastel on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper mounted on linen

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

Here, Burne-Jones depicts the moment Cupid first encounters the sleeping Psyche and looks upon a vulnerable woman with an unrequited gaze, as described in Morris’s poem: “long he stood above her hidden eyes / With red lips parted in god’s surprise.”

The Duet: Portraits of Alexandra, Daughter of Rev. G. Kitchin and Winifrid, Daughter of the Painter

Artist: Henry James Holiday (British, 1839-1927)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper

Collection: Property from the Collection of Sir Rod Stewart, C.B.E.

Description

Holiday's daughter Winifrid (1866-1949) became a violinist and violin teacher, alongside her work as a suffragette.

Alexandra Kitchin (1864-1912) was named after her god-mother Alexandra of Denmark (then Princess of Wales), and was also the subject of at least five photographs by Lewis Carroll aged between four and sixteen.

Reverend Dr George William Kitchin (1827-1912) was the first Chancellor of the University of Durham and Dean of Winchester, and a friend of Carroll and John Ruskin, as well as Holiday.

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Vivien

Artist: Frederick Sandys (British, 1829-1904)

Date: 1863

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

Portrait of Miss Davison

Artist: Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)

Date: 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

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