Victorian Paintings

The Golden Bowl represents the last flowering of Pre-Raphaelitism, painted well into the twentieth century in 1955 almost a hundred years after Rossetti had painted similar luscious depictions of exotically attired maidens in richly ornamented costumes. Here, an un-named maiden of an renaissance-type holds aloft a bowl of votive fruit, inviting the beholder to take one from her.

The Novice (1856) by James Sant RA (English, 1820 – 1916), oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Harris Museum

Nymphea, c.1890 by Arthur Wardle (English, 1864–1949)

William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott, 1850, black chalk, pen and ink, 23.5 × 14.2 cm, NGV, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1921

Fair Rosamund in her Bower - William Bell Scott

L'aube (Dawn) (1900) by Victor Prouvé (French, 1858 – 1943), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy

A Nymph in the Forest (1893) by John Collier (English, 1850 – 1934), signed and dated bottom left ‘John Collier / 1893’, oil on canvas, 102 cm (40.1 in) x 127.1 cm (50 in), Swiss Private Collection

John White Alexander (1856-1915, American) ~ Lady Before the Mirror, n/d

by Rose Cecil O'Neill

Miranda (1856) by Frederick Sandys (British, 1829 – 1904), oil on mahogany panel. 17 ½ x 13 ½ inches (44.4 x 34.2 cm), Private Collection of Lord Lloyd Webber

The Birth of Aphrodite (1904) by Norman Prescott-Davies (British, 1862 – 1915), signed and dated ‘1904’ (lower left), oil on canvas, 105.5 x 60cm (41½ x 23½ in.), Private Collection

Die Verträumte (The Dreamy One) (1898) by Wilhelm Bernatzik (Austrian, 1853 – 1906), oil on canvas, 151 x 138.5 cm (approximately 59.4 x 54.5 in), Moravian Gallery in Brno

Vénus (often referred to as Victorious Venus or Vénus victorieuse) (1875) by Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823 – 1889), oil on canvas, 149.5 cm (58.8 in) x 97.2 cm (38.2 in), Musée Fabre, Montpellier

1868

Sweet Dreams!

Dreaming by Robert Fowler (1850 – 1926)

— Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871-1949)