Contemplation

John William Godward
Contemplation
oil on canvas 21 in. diameter
Reposted from the blog: underpaintings

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Ask Me No More, 1906, detail

Charles Edward Perugini

Oh for the Touch of a Vanished Hand, 77.2 x 54 cm

Frederic, Lord Leighton

By the Sea

I think this work is hanging in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Sir John Everett Millais

Ophelia


Portrait of a Girl (Sophie Gray), 12 x 19 inches

Victorian painters have been criticised for depicting the feminine as ineffectual, passive and swooning.

The first of these works may have added to this perception. The girl in the portrait; however, is depicted without idealism. There's a certain defiance in the jutting chin; perhaps impatience from sitting for the portrait.

Charles E Perugini - English

In the Orangery

detail

Idea for very large canvas

I Know a Maiden Fair...

Godward - John William

Reverie

A Greek Woman

JW Waterhouse

The Lady Clare

Danaides

Albert Moore

Midsummer

Albert Moore was the brother of the marine painter, Henry Moore (not to be confused with the sculptor). Like Lord Leighton's Flaming June the subject is an orange-robed, sleeping woman. Both paintings are a celebration of the colour orange. The dark blue background sets off the orange of the robes, echoed in the garland of orange flowers. There appear to be hints of purple in the shadows of the folds of fabric. The fans suggest the heat of midsummer.

Sir Frank Dicksee

Oriental Pastime


Portrait of Elsa

The Mirror

Female Heads - Poynter, Leighton, Harlamoff

Alexander Mueller


Singer Sargent Lady Agnew


Edward Poynter


Poynter - Lily Langtree


Lord Leighton


Poynter


Edmund Blair Leighton - Olivia


Harlamoff - Contemplation