"family. Although Ford Madox Brown was never a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, ""The Last of England"", like many of his paintings, exhibits all the characteristics of the movement. The painting depicts a man and his wife seeing England for the last time. The two main figures, based on Brown and his wife, Emma, stare ahead, stony-faced, ignoring the white cliffs of Dover which can be seen disappearing behind them in the top right of the picture. The family's clothing indicates that they are middle class, and so they are not leaving for the reasons that would force the emigration"
"Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius, whom he met in Rome in 1845-46. Brown struggled to make his mark in the 1850s, with his paintings failing to find buyers, and he considered emigrating to India. In 1852 he started work on two of his most significant works. One of his most famous images is ""The Last of England"", painted from 1852 to 1855, which was sold in March 1859 for 325 Guineas (""2010: £""). It depicts a pair of stricken emigrants as they sail away on the ship that will take them from England forever. It was inspired by the departure"
"The Last Judgement (Martin paintings) The Last Judgement is a triptych of oil paintings by the British artist John Martin, created in 1851–1854. The work comprises three separate paintings on a theme of the end of the world, inspired by the Book of Revelation. The paintings are generally considered to be among Martin's most important works, and have been described by some art critics as his masterpiece. The paintings were Martin's last major works before his death in 1854. They were exhibited to the public from the time of his death until the 1870s to advertise the sale of prints"
"The Last Muster The Last Muster is an 1875 oil painting by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, based on his wood engraving ""Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital"" published in ""The Graphic"" on 18 February 1871. The painting is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool. The work depicts a group of Chelsea Pensioners at a Sunday morning service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The aged pensioner at the near end of the second row has died; his neighbour is holding his wrist, checking in vain for a pulse. The painting measures . Several of the figures in"
"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). The work was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the ""Inferno"" of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The work is part of a series which was to be the last set of watercolours Blake worked on before his death in August 1827. It is held in the Tate Gallery, London. Blake was commissioned in 1824"
"The Last of England (film) The Last of England is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton. It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Thatcher's England. (including the formation of Section 28 Local Government Act.) Declaring it a homophobic and repressive totalitarian state. In 1986, Jarman was also diagnosed with AIDS and had just finished his 'masterpiece', ""Caravaggio"", so the film is a confluence of angry imagination. It is named after a painting by the"
"The Death of Chatterton The Death of Chatterton is an oil painting on canvas, by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, now in Tate Britain, London. Two smaller versions, sketches or replicas, are held by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. The Tate painting measures by , and was completed in 1856. The subject of the painting was the 17-year-old English early Romantic poet Thomas Chatterton, shown dead after he poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770. Chatterton was considered a Romantic hero for many young and struggling artists in Wallis's day. His method"
"mainly religious subjects, such as ""Christ casting out the Devils at Gadara"" (1850), ""Samson and Delilah"" (1852). In 1853 he reverted to historical subjects, and among his later pictures were ""Mozart's Requiem"" (1854), ""Scene from the Early Life of Queen Elizabeth"" (1857), ""Eugene Beauharnais refusing to give up the Sword of his Father"" (1858), ""The Morning of the Duel"" (1860), ""The Last Relics of Lady Jane Grey"" (1861). In 1866 he exhibited ""The Lady and the Wasp"" and ""Reconciliation"". A picture of ""The Widow's Cruse of Oil"", painted for a private commission, was exhibited at Liverpool. Grant also executed drawings"
"Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme for the newly-opened Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, where it remains. The Last Muster The Last Muster is an 1875 oil painting by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, based on his wood engraving ""Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital"" published in ""The Graphic"" on 18 February 1871. The painting is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool. The work depicts a group of Chelsea Pensioners at a Sunday morning service in the chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The aged pensioner at the near end of the second row has died; his neighbour is holding"
"amount of the collection dispersed in 1998, they are widely scattered. Robert Alexander Hillingford Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. One painting from this period entitled ""The Last Evening of the Carnival"" was exhibited"
"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"
"The Great Day of His Wrath The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration for this painting on a night journey through the Black Country. This has led some scholars to hold that the rapid industrialisation of England in the early nineteenth century influenced Martin. Some authors have used the painting as the front cover for their books; examples include ""Mass of the Apocalypse"" and ""Studies in the Book"
"England"" (1858–59), and ""English Ballads"" (1864). In 1854 he was described as suffering from ""brain fever"" and sold his studio later that year—the quality of his work declined dramatically from then on. He died at Hereford Road, Bayswater, London on 19 December 1878, having just a few months before been awarded a civil list pension of £100. His only son, Joseph Nash Jnr., was a marine painter and also a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours. Joseph Nash Joseph Nash (17 December 1809 – 19 December 1878) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer, specialising in historical"
"Capriccio of the City of London Capriccio of the City of London is an early 18th century oil painting made by the Dutch Griffier family, who became well known in England. Jan Griffier and his children, Jan and Robert, created the landscape. This canvas shows London almost a century after the devastating Great Fire of London of September 1666. A courtly couple costumed in the period of George II promenades in the foreground. The commercial peak of the time is portrayed by the abundant merchant ships on the River Thames. In the centre stands the famous Monument to the Great"
"purchased by Earl Grosvenor in 1866 and stayed in his possession until at least 1871. In 1876, the painting was bought by Sir Francis Cook, where the painting stayed until 1951. It was sold to Sir Alexander Corda by the Cook family. John Mitchell bought the painting in 1955; the IMA purchased the painting in the same year from Mitchell with funds from the Lilly family. The Fifth Plague of Egypt The Fifth Plague of Egypt is an oil painting by Romantic English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner currently in the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Despite"
"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 Academy. His subsequent works at the Society of British Artists included ""The Sons of Jacob bringing the blood-stained garment of Joseph to their Father"", 1844; ""Salute, Signore"", 1845; ""A Girl of Sorrento at a Well"", 1847; ""Inhabitants of the Palace of the Cæsars—Rome in the Nineteenth Century"" 1850; ""Columbus asking Alms at the Convent of La Rabida"" 1853; ""The Last Sigh of the Moor"" (or ""Boabdil el Chico, mourning over the Fall of Granada, reproached by his Mother""), 1854; and ""Margaret of Anjou and Edward, Prince of Wales, in the wood on their flight after the Battle of Hexham"","
"watercolour replica of the painting in Birmingham produced between 1864–66 is in Tate Britain. A fully worked study also exists, and a detailed compositional drawing. All are in the form of round panels, a rarely revived Renaissance format called a tondo, but differ in colouring. In March 1859 ""The Last Sight of England"" as it was then known, was sold by Benjamin Windus to Ernest Gambart for 325 guineas (""2010: £""). The picture was voted Britain's eighth-favourite picture in a poll carried out by BBC Radio 4. In 2013 it was voted 32 out of 57 paintings chosen by the"
"for example, she is the wife in ""The Last of England"". She became his mistress, and they shared a house in London, but social convention made him unable to marry an illiterate daughter of a bricklayer. Their daughter Catherine Emily was born in 1850, and eventually they were married at St Dunstan-in-the-West in April 1853. Their son, Oliver Madox Brown (1855–1874) (known as Nolly) showed promise both as an artist and poet, but died of blood poisoning before his maturity. The death of Nolly was a crushing blow for Brown, and he kept a room for his son's belongings as"
"The Triumph of Cleopatra The Triumph of Cleopatra, also known as Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia and The Arrival of Cleopatra in Cilicia, is an oil painting by English artist William Etty. It was first exhibited in 1821, and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight across the River Mersey from Liverpool. During the 1810s Etty had become widely respected among staff and students at the Royal Academy of Arts, in particular for his use of colour and ability to paint realistic flesh tones. Despite having exhibited at every Summer Exhibition since 1811 he attracted little commercial"
"Saint Eulalia (Waterhouse painting) Saint Eulalia is an oil painting on canvas in the Pre-Raphaelite style, created in 1885 by English artist John William Waterhouse, depicting the aftermath of the death of Eulalia of Mérida. It is currently housed at Tate Britain. A very daring composition, this is one of Waterhouse's most unusual, and consequently most striking, oil paintings. The corpse is dramatically foreshortened, and the snow contrasts with Eulalia’s naked flesh – the 12-year-old girl seems singularly out of place for a Waterhouse picture. His choice of configuration – situating the corpse across the front and leaving so much"
"also known as The Seamstress). Several other artists were inspired by Hood's poem ""The Bridge of Sighs"". Examples of similar works include Rossetti's ""Found"" and Abraham Solomon's ""Drowned! Drowned!"". The scene is echoed in the third painting of Augustus Egg's 1858 series, ""Past and Present"". Watts quickly abandoned his dalliance with social realism, and returned to allegorical themes. He never sold his four social realist paintings, which were first exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881–82 and are now all held by the Watts Gallery in Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. Found Drowned Found Drowned is an oil painting by"
"hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851. In 2005 it was voted the nation's favourite painting in a poll organised by BBC Radio 4's ""Today"" programme. When Turner came to paint this picture he was at the height of his career, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, for 40 years. He was renowned for his highly atmospheric paintings in which he explored the subjects of the weather, the sea and the effects of light. He spent much of his life near the River Thames and did many paintings of"
"in 1854 (after Martin's death) by Thomas McLean. together with two other paintings by Martin, ""Plains of Heaven"" and ""The last Judgment"" (a group of three 'judgment pictures'). Despite wide public reception, the three paintings were rejected as vulgar by the Royal Academy. In 1945, the painting was purchased by the Tate from Robert Frank. The Great Day of His Wrath The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration"
"is usually on display in Tate Britain, London, in room 1840. ""The Lady of Shalott"" is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting of a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur's Camelot. Waterhouse painted three different versions of this character, in 1888, 1894 and 1915. The painting has the precisely painted"
"population viewed it. Due to Hunt's increasing infirmity and glaucoma, he was assisted in the completion of this version by English painter Edward Robert Hughes (who also assisted with Hunt's version of ""The Lady of Shalott""). Hunt was buried in St Paul's. A third, smaller version of the painting, painted by Hunt in pastels between 1851 and 1856, is on display at Manchester City Art Gallery, England, which purchased it in 1964. The painting gave rise to much popular devotion in the late Victorian period and inspired several musical works, including Arthur Sullivan's 1873 oratorio ""The Light of the World""."
"Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis is an oil painting by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (c.1775–1851), first exhibited in 1843. Displayed during the latter years of J.M.W. Turners career, this painting depicts a deluge scene where the natural effects of light and weather (the atmosphere) play a crucial role on Turner's concept of vision. The deluge being referred to in the title is the representation of the"
"images. The painting has since been restored and the overpaint was removed, revealing the skeleton. The Last Drop (Leyster) The Last Drop is an oil painting by Judith Leyster in the John G. Johnson collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was considered a work by Frans Hals until 1903, when it was noticed that it is signed 'JL*' on the tankard. The painting was together with Leyster's ""Merry Trio"" in the collection of the British dealer/auction house Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925) where it was documented in 1903. The two may be pendants, as they were then reported to"
"Robert Alexander Hillingford Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes. He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. One painting from this period entitled ""The Last Evening of the Carnival"" was exhibited at St. Petersburg in 1859. He returned to London in 1864,"
"– The Great Western Railway"" (1844). War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet is an oil painting of 1842 by the English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851). Intended to be a companion piece to Turner's ""Peace. Burial at Sea"", ""War"" is a painting that depicts a moment from Napoleon Bonaparte's exile at Saint Helena. In December 1815, the former Emperor was taken by the British government to the Longwood House, despite its state of disrepair, to live in captivity; during his final years of isolation, Napoleon had fallen into despair. Turner's"
"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 Dresden where he began studying painting. After a change in the fortunes of his family, they moved to London in 1848. Yeames learnt"
"Frank in 1947 and restored. Frank also acquired ""The Plains of Heaven"". The triptych was reassembled at the Tate Gallery in 1974 after Charlotte Frank donated the two other works following the death of her husband, Robert Frank. The Last Judgement (Martin paintings) The Last Judgement is a triptych of oil paintings by the British artist John Martin, created in 1851–1854. The work comprises three separate paintings on a theme of the end of the world, inspired by the Book of Revelation. The paintings are generally considered to be among Martin's most important works, and have been described by some"
"based on Godinton House in Ashford, Kent, which was the home of the Toke family from 1440 to 1895. Sir Charles Pulleyne is based on Colonel John Leslie Toke (1839–1911), a friend of Martineau, who inherited the house in 1866 but sold it less than 30 years later. The painting measures by . It was exhibited at the British Institution in 1862 and was presented to the Tate Gallery by E.H. Martineau in 1896. The Last Day in the Old Home The Last Day in the Old Home is an oil-on-canvas painting made in 1862 by English painter Robert Braithwaite"