"a walk across Formosa Island is necessary to visit the lock. Cookham was home to the artist Stanley Spencer whose works include ""Swan Upping at Cookham"". Cookham Lock Cookham Lock is a lock with weirs situated on the River Thames near Cookham, Berkshire. The lock is set in a lock cut which is one of four streams here and it is surrounded by woods. On one side is Sashes Island and on the other is Mill Island connected to Formosa Island, the largest on the non-tidal Thames. There are several weirs here. Hedsor weir was placed across the old navigation"
"Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as ""a village in Heaven"" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the ""Shipbuilding"
"simply inspecting their headstones. Spencer created the picture in the early years of his marriage to Carline and she appears three times in the picture. Overall, the Goupil exhibition was a great success with thirty-nine of the displayed paintings being sold. ""The Resurrection, Cookham"" was purchased by Lord Duveen, who presented it to the Tate. After the exhibition Spencer moved to Burghclere to begin work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel for the Behrends. The Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere was a colossal undertaking. Spencer's paintings cover a twenty-one foot high, seventeen-and-half foot wide end wall, eight seven foot high lunettes,"
"What makes it so astonishing is the combination in it of careful detail with the modern freedom of form. It is as if a Pre-Raphaelite had shaken hands with a Cubist."" The huge painting is set in the grounds of the Holy Trinity Church, Cookham, and shows Spencer's friends and family from Cookham and Hampstead, and others emerging from graves watched by figures of God, Christ and the saints. To the left of the church some of the resurrected are climbing over a stile, others are making their way to the river to board a Thames pleasure boat, others are"
"couple first met in 1919 and had originally announced their engagement in 1922 after a Carline family painting trip to Yugoslavia. Spencer repeatedly cancelled, or otherwise postponed, their wedding until 1925. A daughter, Shirin, was born in November of that year and a second daughter, Unity, in 1930. In February 1927 Spencer held his first one-man exhibition at the Goupil Gallery. The centre piece of the exhibition was ""The Resurrection, Cookham"" which received rave reviews in the British press. ""The Times"" art critic described it as ""the most important picture painted by any English artist in the present century. ..."
"in Bunhill Fields burial ground. Stothard's painting of ""Erato"" (one of the Muses) is given a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in her ""Poetical Catalogue of Pictures"", in The Literary Gazette (1823). Another of his paintings ""The Fairy Queen Sleeping"" is poetically examined in a similar fashion in her ""Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures"" in The Troubadour (1826). Thomas Stothard Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. Stothard was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in Long Acre A delicate child, he was sent at the age"
"Southern Hemisphere. <BR> Resurrection of Christ (Raphael) The Resurrection of Christ (1499–1502), also called The Kinnaird Resurrection (after a former owner of the painting, Lord Kinnaird), is an oil painting on wood by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. The work is one of the earliest known paintings by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown predella, though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci altarpiece, Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1789, fragments of which are today"
"Resurrection of Christ (Raphael) The Resurrection of Christ (1499–1502), also called The Kinnaird Resurrection (after a former owner of the painting, Lord Kinnaird), is an oil painting on wood by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. The work is one of the earliest known paintings by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown predella, though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci altarpiece, Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1789, fragments of which are today found in museums"
"another possible war memorial scheme. These designs convinced two early patrons of Spencer's work, Louis and Mary Behrend, to commission a group of paintings as a memorial to Mary's brother, Lieutenant Henry Willoughby Sandham, who had died in the war. The Behrends planned to build a chapel in the village of Burghclere in Berkshire to house the paintings. In October 1923, Spencer started renting Henry Lamb's studio in Hampstead where he began work on ""The Resurrection, Cookham"". In 1925, Spencer married Hilda Carline, a former student at the Slade and the sister of the artists Richard and Sydney Carline. The"
"James Thornhill Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the ""Painted Hall"" at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, the paintings on the inside of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, and works at Chatsworth House and Wimpole Hall. Thornhill was born in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, the son of Walter Thornhill of Wareham and Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel William Sydenham, governor of Weymouth. In 1689 he was apprenticed to Thomas Highmore (1660–1720), a"
"Resurrection (Cecco del Caravaggio) The Resurrection by Cecco del Caravaggio, the Italian Baroque painter, is the only painting securely documented as his. Through the use of alternate strong lights and deep shadows the chiaroscuro highlights the vividness of the dramatic scene. One of Cecco's most notable works, the painting is in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting depicts the moment of the resurrection as described in : The artwork is a large-scale painting intended for private devotion. It was commissioned in 1619 for Piero Guicciardini, the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, for his private chapel in"
"his village childhood, just one example being his 1958 Crucifixion which was inspired by seeing piles of rubble in the High Street created by the laying of the mains drainage pipes. Cookham has altered greatly since Stanley's early days but it is still possible to see many settings of his paintings and even the views he recorded so well. Some of the village atmosphere he so enjoyed can be found walking through the churchyard of Holy Trinity or following Spencer's footsteps along the river bank up to Cockmarsh and Winter Hill. The Stanley Spencer Gallery has one of the largest"
"by Michelangelo were bought by Boxall, ""The Entombment"" in 1868 and the ""Manchester Madonna"" in 1870. The authenticity of the former was called into question by the House of Lords in 1869, but is now generally regarded to be genuine – unlike another of Boxall's controversial acquisitions, the ""Suermondt Rembrandt"" 7, now attributed to Nicolaes Maes. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1851 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1863. William Boxall Sir William Boxall (29 June 1800 – 6 December 1879) was an English painter and museum director. He was born in or"
"Marcus Reichert Marcus Reichert (born June 19, 1948) is an American painter, poet, author, photographer, and film writer/director. He was given his first exhibition of paintings at the age of twenty-one at the Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery, New York. In 1990, he was honored with a retrospective organised by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne which toured in various forms to Glasgow, London, Paris, and the United States. His Crucifixion paintings have been described by Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted in the 20th Century, while the"
"Kt. CBE RA, 1891–1959, and his wife Hilda, buried in Cookham cemetery 1950. Everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God: He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love."" The value of Spencer's paintings soared after a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1980. ""The Resurrection; waking up"" fetched £770,000 at Christie's early in 1990, and in May of that year his ""Crucifixion"" (1958) fetched £1,320,000. ""It was an all-time record for a modern British painting, and would have astounded Stanley, who was poor for so long."" By 2011, ""Sunflower and Dog Worship"" sold"
"The Resurrection (Piero della Francesca) The Resurrection is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, painted in the 1460s in the Palazzo della Residenza in the town of Sansepolcro, Tuscany, Italy. Piero was commissioned to paint the fresco for the Gothic-style ""Residenza"", the communal meeting hall which was used solely by ""Conservatori"", the chief magistrates and governors, who before starting their councils, would pray before the image. ""The secular and spiritual meanings of the painting were always intimately intertwined."" Placed high on the interior wall facing the entrance, the fresco has for its subject an allusion"
"Stanley Spencer Gallery The Stanley Spencer Gallery is an art museum in the South of England dedicated to the life and work of the artist Stanley Spencer. It was opened in 1962 and is located in the Thameside village of Cookham, Berkshire where the artist was born and spent much of his life. The Collection comprises over 100 paintings and drawings, which includes a number of long term loans. Exhibitions are mounted on a regular basis which include loans from other public institutions and public collection. Cookham was very important to Stanley Spencer, he called it ‘a Village in Heaven’"
"The Entombment (Michelangelo) The Entombment is an unfinished painting of the placing of the body of Jesus in the garden tomb, now generally attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti and dated to around 1500 or 1501. It is in the National Gallery in London, which purchased the work in 1868 from Robert Macpherson, a Scottish photographer resident in Rome who, according to various conflicting accounts, had acquired the painting there some 20 years before. The chronological position of this work has been the source of some dispute, although it is generally considered an early work. Some authorities believe"
"Frederick Richard Pickersgill Frederick Richard Pickersgill (25 September 1820 – 20 December 1900) was an English painter and book illustrator. Born in London into a family of artists, he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1840. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1839 and 1875. Most of these works depicted scenes drawn from literature (including Edmund Spenser and John Milton), religion, and history. Pickersgill's ""The Burial of Harold"" was accepted as a decoration for the Houses of Parliament in 1847 for the some of £500. He also did some landscapes under the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites."
"Shouldn't twentieth-century churches have twentieth-century art?"" This quote reflects his vision in which every church would have a resident artist. Reinhold Marxhausen Reinhold Pieper Marxhausen (April 13, 1922 - April 23, 2011), was an American artist known for his work in sculpture, mosaic, painting and found object art. Reinhold studied at Valparaiso University, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Ray-Vogue School in Chicago and Mills College in California. He became the first art department chair at Concordia University, Nebraska in 1951, teaching there until his retirement in 1991. During this time, he gained national recognition through various exhibits across the"
"known address was 8 Judd Place West, New Road (renamed Euston Road in 1857), London. Thomas Kirk (artist) Thomas Kirk (1765–1797) was a noted English artist, book illustrator and engraver of the late 18th century. A pupil of Richard Cosway, Kirk exhibited the first of 25 works at the Royal Academy in 1785, and created many famous engravings based either upon his own work or works by, amongst others, Angelica Kauffman, Richard Westall or Sir Joshua Reynolds. Although he illustrated James Thomson's ""The Seasons"" in 1793, he was employed most consistently by Cooke for his editions of celebrated works of"
"appeal to the monarch was ultimately successful, and the practice of the rotation of the council members reinstated. He was professor of painting at the Academy from 1807 to 1809. He was involved in several of the major history painting ventures of late 18th-century London, including Robert Bowyer's History Gallery, the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and Thomas Macklin's ""Holy Bible"". His surviving paintings include ""The Earl of Warwick's Vow before the Battle of Towton"" (Manchester Art Gallery). He died in 1814. Henry Tresham Henry Tresham RA (c.1751 – 17 June 1814) was an Irish-born historical painter active in London, England, in"
"The Nativity (Burne-Jones) The Nativity is one of a pair of monumental paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones commissioned for the chancel of the church of St John the Apostle, Torquay, England, in 1887. The Gothic Revival church was designed by architect George Edmund Street in the 1860s and decorated by Morris & Co., the decorative arts firm in which Burne-Jones was a partner. St John's sold ""The Nativity"" and its companion painting, known as ""The King and the Shepherd"", in 1989 to pay for a new roof for the church (copies were hung in their places). The two"
"genres"" of painting was Sir James Thornhill (1675/76–1734) who was the first and last significant English painter of huge Baroque allegorical decorative schemes, and the first native painter to be knighted. His best-known work is at Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and the cupola of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London. His drawings show a taste for strongly drawn realism in the direction his son-in-law William Hogarth was to pursue, but this is largely overridden in the finished works, and for Greenwich he took to heart his careful list of ""Objections that will arise from the plain representation of the King's landing as"
"The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: ""Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me"". According to Hunt: ""I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I was, to be by Divine command, and not simply as a"
"Engraved reproductions were widely hung in nurseries, schools and church buildings. The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: ""Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me"". According to Hunt: ""I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I"
"including a cemetery with a man standing in front of a cross adorned with a wreath. A picture of the deepest sorrow and desolation. The lone figure's total isolation from the outside world is a dramatic and desperate moment. The painting was painted shortly before the artist's collapse. It belonged to one of the 18 paintings that Hill wanted to show at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878. The Cemetery The Cemetery (in Swedish: ""Kyrkogården"") is an 1877 painting by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Hill. The painting is currently on display at the Malmö Art Museum in Sweden. In"
"stained glass window in the City of London, a depiction of ""The Agony in the Garden"" painted by James Pearson. The stained glass in the aisles is partly Victorian, and partly from the 1940s. Some monuments were preserved from the old church, including the tomb of Anne Packington, who died in 1563. The organ, in a gallery at the west end, is by Samuel Green and dates from 1788. The east façade, towards Aldersgate Street, is a screen wall, erected in 1831 and executed in Roman cement, with a pediment and four attached Ionic columns standing on a high plinth,"
"has been further enhanced by Sir William Richmond's mosaics and the fittings by Dykes Bower and Godfrey Allen. Other artworks in the cathedral include, in the south aisle, William Holman Hunt's copy of his painting ""The Light of the World"", the original of which hangs in Keble College, Oxford. The St. Paul's version was completed with a significant input from Edward Robert Hughes as Hunt was now suffering from glaucoma. In the north choir aisle is a limestone sculpture of the ""Madonna and Child"" by Henry Moore, carved in 1943. The crypt contains over 200 memorials and numerous burials. Christopher"
"is shown. Rembrandt's 1648 depiction of the Supper builds on the etching that he did six years earlier, in which the disciple on the left had risen, hands clasped in prayer. In both depictions, the disciples are startled and in awe but not in fear. The servant is oblivious to the theophanic moment taking place during the supper. Caravaggio's painting in London and his painting in Milan were six years apart, and both imitate natural color very well, but both were criticized for lack of decorum. Caravaggio depicted Jesus without a beard, and the London painting shows fruits on the"
"Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, London) The Supper at Emmaus is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, executed in 1601, and now in the National Gallery in London. Originally this painting was commissioned and paid for by Ciriaco Mattei, brother of cardinal Girolamo Mattei. The painting depicts the moment when the resurrected but incognito Jesus, reveals himself to two of his disciples (presumed to be Luke and Cleopas) in the town of Emmaus, only to soon vanish from their sight (Gospel of Luke 24: 30–31). Cleopas wears the scallop shell of a pilgrim. The other apostle wears torn clothes."
"establishment, given by the superior to an ancestor of Mr. Johnes. Among numerous pictures on display within the mansion were, a portrait of Mr. Johnes of Llanvair, by Sir Godfrey Kneller; of Robert Liston, Esq., by Wickstead; of Richard Gorges, Esq., of Eye, in the county of Hereford; and of Viganoni; a copy of Guido's Cupid Sleeping, landscapes by Both and Berghem, a painting of the ruined Alchymist by Salvator Rosa. In the drawing-room are, Hogarth's celebrated picture of Southwark Fair, a Descent from the Cross by Van Dyck, an ""Ecce Homo"" by Moralez, two landscapes by Claude, a procession"
"it up. Henry Cooke (artist) Henry Cooke (1642–1700), son of Henry Cooke, was an English artist, employed by the Ironmongers' Company. Cooke went to Italy where he studied under Salvator Rosa. He painted the choir of New College Chapel, Oxford, the staircase at Ranelagh House, and Lord Carlisle's House in Soho Square. He died in 1700. It is said that he committed a murder and fled from England; and that after his return, he was employed by King William to ""repair"" the Cartoons of Raphael. He finished the portrait of Charles II at Chelsea Hospital; and also tried portrait painting,"