Which British artist is best known for his painting 'And When Did You Last See Your Father'?
"after the gallery opened in 1877. Madame Tussauds in London has a life-size waxwork tableau of the scene, faithfully reproduced from the painting. William Frederick Yeames William Frederick Yeames (18 December 1835 – 3 May 1918) was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas problem picture """"And When Did You Last See Your Father?"""", which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Yeames was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a British consul based in Russia. After the death of his father in 1842, Yeames was sent to school in"
"""""And when did you last see your father?"""" became the most famous example of the genre. It depicts a young boy of the English civil war period being gently interrogated by Cromwellian troops who are looking for his Royalist father. It is implied that they are asking a trick question designed to discover his location. The painting is poised at the moment the child is about to answer. Yeames painted many other works of this type, including ""Amy Robsart"" and ""Defendant and Counsel"". When the latter was exhibited a newspaper ran a competition for readers to guess what crime the"
"British public from national collections, which were used for ""Art Everywhere The World's Largest Public Art Exhibition"". The Last of England (painting) The Last of England is an 1855 oil-on-panel painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting two emigrants leaving England to start a new life in Australia with their baby. Brown began the painting in 1852 inspired by the departure of his close friend, the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who had left for Australia in July of that year. Emigration from England was at a peak, with over 350,000 people leaving that year. Brown, who at the time considered himself"
"in so doing brought pleasure to hundreds of thousands of people."" David Shepherd (artist) Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes. His work has been extremely popular since the 1960s in limited edition print reproduction and poster form, as well as other media such as Wedgwood limited edition plates. He published"
"and Company in 1924; which had no illustrations. The artwork sent to New York went missing, however Everett would recover it some years later. Meanwhile, in 1925, Everett exhibited Hardy Country aquatints at the Camera Club near the Adelphi, London. 1938 marked his last voyage and World War II put an end to his travels, he was to paint and make prints from memory and notes from that point on. Everett died in London on 22 February 1949. In 2017 it was found that there are more paintings by John Everett in UK public art collections than any other artist."
"David Shepherd (artist) Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (25 April 1931 – 19 September 2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes. His work has been extremely popular since the 1960s in limited edition print reproduction and poster form, as well as other media such as Wedgwood limited edition plates. He published five books about his art, including an autobiography. David Shepherd was"
"Meredith Frampton George Vernon Meredith Frampton (17 March 1894 – 16 September 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s–1940s. His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to fail in the 1950s, but his work is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum. Frampton was born in the St John's Wood area of London and was the only child of the sculptor Sir George Frampton and his wife, the painter Christabel Cockerell. Frampton was educated at Westminster School and after some months"
"fatherless"" (1885), ""Homeless"" (1890), and ""The pinch of poverty"" (1891), depicted the harsh realities of life for the poor in Britain in a manner that played on the onlooker's emotions. It has been suggested that he may have been influenced by the Spanish painter Murillo (1618–1682), whose work also featured street children. He painted in both oils and watercolour. Kennington died in London on 10 December 1916. His son Eric Kennington (1888–1960) was also a notable artist, illustrator and sculptor. Thomas Benjamin Kennington Thomas Benjamin Kennington (7 April 1856 – 10 December 1916) was an English genre, social realist and"
"of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of Canada, the V&A and the Tate among others. He was known first as a landscape painter, but changed to a totally abstract style from 1960. He lived and worked in Kent. Alan Reynolds (artist) Alan Munro Reynolds (27 April 1926 – 28 August 2014) was a British painter. Reynolds was born on 27 April 1926 at Newmarket, Suffolk, where his father worked as a stableman. He studied at the Woolwich Polytechnic from 1948 to 1952 and in 1954, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to"
"84 in a hospital in London. Tributes to him were made by several figures in British art, including Tate director Nicholas Serota. Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, London, the son of Eliot Hodgkin (1905–1973), a manager for the chemical company ICI and a noted amateur horticulturist, and his wife Katherine, a botanical illustrator. During the Second World War, Eliot Hodgkin was an RAF officer, rising"
"Frampton's paintings for new editions of the complete works of Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. Meredith Frampton George Vernon Meredith Frampton (17 March 1894 – 16 September 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s–1940s. His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to fail in the 1950s, but his work is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum. Frampton was born in the St John's Wood area of London and was the only child of the sculptor Sir George Frampton and his wife,"
"the most expensive Pearce to-date. Several biographies have been published, including Ruth Jones's ""The Path of the Son"" (1976), Marion Whybrow's ""Bryan Pearce: a private view"" (1985) and Janet Axten's ""The Artist and His Work"" (2004). Bryan Pearce Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July 1929 – 11 January 2007) was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists. Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life. His father, Walter, was a butcher in St Ives, played rugby for Cornwall, and was later mayor of St"
"Summer Again"". A ""lost"" painting titled ""Rejected"" was featured in a 2017 episode of the BBC series ""Fake or Fortune?"". It was determined by experts to be a genuine Roberts, dating from his student years in London. Roberts' granddaughter considered it a self-portrait. If so, it would make it his oldest surviving self-portrait. A retrospective toured Australia in 1996-97 and another was shown at the National Gallery of Australia from December 2015 - March 2016. Tom Roberts Thomas William ""Tom"" Roberts (8 March 185614 September 1931) was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School, also"
"varying degrees, especially his oldest son, Tom Purvis (1888-1959), who became one of the most distinguished and distinctive of 20th century poster artists. ""Selections of his paintings can be found on:""<br> The BBC's ""Your Paintings"" ""and on various art selling sites, including:""<br> The Fine Art Emporium <br> Bonhams <br> Christies T G Purvis T G Purvis (12 April 1861 – 17 January 1933) was a British marine artist. A sea captain who turned to painting, he was a prolific painter of ship portraits and marine scenes from the early 1890s to the late 1920s. His paintings can be found in"
"last-named was one of his best paintings. A watercolour drawing of ""Calves"" is at the Victoria and Albert Museum; three water-colours, ""Interior of a Windmill (on Reigate Heath) fitted up as a Chapel"", ""Windmill and Cottage"" and ""Heath Scene"", are at the British Museum, and his oil painting ""Dartmoor Ponies"" is in the Norwich Castle Museum. Exhibitions of works by him were held at the Dudley Galleries, 169 Piccadilly, in Oct. 1907 and Oct. 1911. Arthur James Stark Arthur James Stark (6 October 1831 – 29 October 1902) was an English painter and a member of the Norwich School of"
"The Last of England (painting) The Last of England is an 1855 oil-on-panel painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting two emigrants leaving England to start a new life in Australia with their baby. Brown began the painting in 1852 inspired by the departure of his close friend, the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor, Thomas Woolner, who had left for Australia in July of that year. Emigration from England was at a peak, with over 350,000 people leaving that year. Brown, who at the time considered himself ""very hard up and a little mad"", was himself thinking of moving to India with his new"
"Vicari died at Morriston Hospital, Swansea on 3 October 2016 at the age of 84. Andrew Vicari Andrew Vicari (born Andrea Antonio Giovanni Vaccari, 20 April 1932 – 3 October 2016) was a Welsh painter working in France, who established a career painting portraits of prominent people. Despite being largely unknown in his own country, Vicari was Britain's richest living painter, and at one time Britain 18th richest person. Vicari was born in Port Talbot, Wales, in 1932 to Italian parents, Vittorio Vaccari ('tobacconist and confectioner'), and his wife, Italini Bertani, from Parma. He was evacuated to Aberdare during World"
"Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70 (or The Painter's Father) is a 1497 oil on lime painting attributed to the German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer, now in the National Gallery, London. Along with the 1490 ""Albrecht Dürer the Elder with a Rosary"", it is the second of two portraits of the artist's Hungarian father Albrecht Dürer the Elder (1427–1502). The sitter's similarity to the earlier portrait, as well to a 1486 silverpoint drawing believed to be a self-portrait by his father, leave no doubt as to his identity. The London panel is thought"
"John Shackleton John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of Henry Pelham (National Portrait Gallery), William Windham (1717–1761; now at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk), and of John Bristowe, steward to the first duke of Newcastle (now in the Reitlinger Museum of Fine Art, Maidenhead). From 1749 he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to George II and George III. He continued to be paid for portraits of the king and queen up even during"
"Last Supper. His Apostles were described by a clergyman as ""the most villainous set of mortals I have ever seen"". John Dobbin John Dobbin (baptised 21 March 1815 St Cuthbert's, Darlington - 1888 London) was an English landscape painter, the son of John and Elizabeth who lived in Weaver's Yard. John, the son, did not follow the same trade as his father, who was a weaver working in Pease's Mill in Darlington town centre, but was apprenticed instead to a cabinet-maker in Grange Road. He was not happy with this choice of career and in his twenties left for London"
"December 2013 to 21 April 2014. John Craxton John Leith Craxton RA, (3 October 1922 – 17 November 2009) was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a ""kind of Arcadian"". John was the son of musician Harold Craxton and his wife Essie. His older brother Harold Antony Craxton (1918–1999) became a leading television producer and outside broadcaster. His sister Janet became a notable oboist. He went to Clayesmore School. He applied for Chelsea School of Art but was considered to be too young to attend nude life classes. Instead"
"art galleries in the UK including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Sheffield City Art Galleries, Sheffield, and many other regional centres. John Clayton Adams John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams (1840 – 20 June 1906) was an English landscape artist Adams was born the second son of Mr. C.H. Adams in Edmonton, Middlesex (now in Greater London), and studied art at the Bloomsbury School and later under William Wilthieu Fenn. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, when he was 19, and, throughout the period 1863 to 1893, exhibited 75 pictures there, and 25 at the Royal Society"
"and ""Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees"" show the artist’s playful sensibility. Her father, Henry Butler, was an amateur artist favouring subjects from nature he encountered on journeys abroad, in particular exotic plants and animals. Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry with frequent trips to England and the continent. She continued painting until the 1930s when she stopped painting due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83. Butler's father Henry may have encouraged her to paint in her youth but her artistic training began in London in the late 1880s with the"
"at his home in West Sussex in 1979. His works are in many major galleries including The Tate, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, and in private collections worldwide, including that of HM The Late Queen Mother. In a 1989 speech by Churchill's daughter, Lady Soames, she said, ""The famous French artist Paul Maze was a painting companion. The 'Cher Maître', as we all came to call this charming man, remained a regular visitor to Chartwell for many years"". Paul Maze Paul Lucien Maze (21 May 1887 – 17 September 1979) was an Anglo-French painter. He is often"
"Richard Hamilton (artist) Richard William Hamilton CH (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition ""Man, Machine and Motion"" (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and his 1956 collage ""Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?"", produced for the ""This Is Tomorrow"" exhibition of the Independent Group in London, are considered by critics and historians to be among the earliest works of pop art. A major retrospective of his work was at Tate Modern until May 2014. Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London on February 24, 1922."
"in April/May 2012. Several other exhibitions have followed from this, and another large-scale exhibition at the Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, in Summer 2018 that showed work originally hung in the same space in 1994. Dave Pearson (painter) David Samuel Pearson (4 August 1937 – 19 July 2008), commonly known as ""Dave Pearson"", was an English painter and educator who was ""a great example of an artist whose life was completely dedicated to serving the imagination"". Highly prolific, throughout his life he produced a prodigious quantity of work. Dave Pearson was born in Clapton, London in 1937. His father, Sam, was a"
"TV's ""Flog It!"". Percy Shakespeare Percy Shakespeare (born 28 February 1906 in Dudley, England; died 25 May 1943 in Brighton, England) was an English painter. He was a celebrated artist, but died in an air raid during the Second World War. Shakespeare was born in 1906 in the slums of the Kates Hill area of Dudley, the fourth of eight children of John Thomas Shakespeare and his wife Ada. His family subsequently moved to council housing in the nearby Wren's Nest Estate area. In 1920, after a chance meeting at the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery with Ivo Shaw, the"
"after a short illness, of a chill caught during a visit to his dying father, whom he survived only by a few hours. George Bouverie Goddard George Bouverie Goddard (25 December 1832 in Salisbury – 6 March 1886 in Hammersmith, London), was a British sporting and animal painter and illustrator. From the age of only ten the drawings of this youthful genius were in great demand, even though he had received no formal artistic training, and faced much opposition in choosing art as a profession. Arriving in London in 1849, he spent some two years in sketching animal life in"
"in art galleries throughout the United Kingdom. They include the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Tate, Barnstaple Guildhall, Foundling Museum and the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. Thomas Hudson (painter) Thomas Hudson (1701 – 26 January 1779) was an English portrait painter. Hudson was born in Devon in 1701. His exact birthplace is unknown. He studied under Jonathan Richardson in London and against his wishes, married Richardson's daughter at some point before 1725. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and 1760 and, from 1745 until 1755 was the most successful London portraitist. He had many assistants, and"
"had two sons, born in 1953 and 1957. He stopped painting after his marriage, except for a period in the 1980s. His painting was ended by deteriorating eyesight and he died of leukaemia in 1990. In 2009 his family started renting gallery space in Edinburgh to hold occasional exhibitions, but his work remained almost completely unknown until a letter to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art led to five paintings being acquired. They were hung beside works by Picasso and Miró in the ""New Acquisitions"" exhibition from October 2013 to May 2014. A number of newspapers published stories about"
"his drawing work, providing the first opportunity to see that the master of colour was also an inventive artist in black and white. He celebrated his 80th year with a large exhibition of his current work at the Flowers Galleries, while a concurrent exhibition of his painting of the 1950s and 60s at the Pyms Gallery, also in London, triggered a reappraisal of his early painting. Acquisitions of his work by the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland quickly followed. He died peacefully aged 81 at home on 12 July 2011. His funeral service was held in Wickham"
"the provenance of the painting can be found in the records compiled by the National Portrait Gallery, London. John James Wilson died aged 57 on 30 January 1875. Initially, it seems unclear where he died. The Free BMD records seem to indicate that his father (year of death 1855), John James, as well as his son Vernon (year of death 1861) all died in the small village of Elham, Kent. Elham is approximately 5 miles (8 km) north east of Folkestone and 9 miles (14 km) south of Canterbury. The anomaly is resolved, however, as Elham was named as the"
"Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London."" John Lockwood Kipling John Lockwood Kipling, C.I.E. (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911), was an English art teacher, illustrator, and museum curator who spent most of his career in British India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling. Lockwood Kipling was born in Pickering, North Yorkshire, the son of Frances (Lockwood) and Reverend Joseph Kipling, and was educated at Woodhouse Grove School, a Methodist boarding school. He met his wife Alice MacDonald while working in Burslem, Staffordshire, where his designs can still be seen on the façade of the"