Sunday, May 30, 2010

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - three watercolours






[Apologies for only having these in b&w]

[The Offering]
signed E.F.BRICKDALE l.r.
watercolour heightened with bodycolour over traces of pencil
14 1/4 x 10"

[Like the Remembrance of a Guest that Tarrieth but a Day]
signed with monogram 19EFB l.r.
watercolour and bodycolour
15 3/4 x 9.5"

[Conscience]
signed with monogram 19EFB01 l.r.
watercolour and bodycolour heightened with scraching out
17 x 10.5"

John William Waterhouse - head of a red headed girl



oil on canvas board
14 x 10.5"

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Satire on Two Little Princes


nice comment on British politics
Not sure if Millais would have appreciated it!
Dave Brown in The Independent

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale - Madame Placid



c. 1911
signed E F B l.r.
Watercolour
14 x 10.5"

G F Watts - Sketches













[Sketchbook]
from a leather-bound sketchbook, dated Jan 1851
pencil

[Figure studies believed to be Ellen Terry]
pencil
8 3/4 x 12 1/4"

[Vesuvius, Bay of Naples]

[The Death of Elias]
red chalk
11 1/4 x 16"

Evelyn de Morgan - Deianira





http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/demorgan/wc/newman11.html

Friday, May 28, 2010

William Holman Hunt - Landscape study at Scanderoon - clouds lying in the hills



pencil
Made ar Iskenderun in s. Turkey on Sunday 25 Nov 1855 during his journey to Constantinople.