Tag: British

Maud Franklin

(1857–1939) Maud in Art: Whistler, James (1834-1903) Arrangement in Yellow and Gray c.1876–1878 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   Born January 9 1857 Bicester (England) Died November 18 1939 near Cannes (France) Lover James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Daughter Ione (born c.1877) Daughter Maud McNeill Whistler…

Mary Fischer, née Gainsborough

(1750–1826) Mary “Molly” Fischer, née Gainsborough Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester     Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Mary 1777 Tate Britain, London   Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister…

Margaret Gainsborough

(1751–1820) Margaret “Peggy” Gainsborough Margaret in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters c.1763–1764 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester     Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Artist’s Daughter Margaret c.1772 Tate Britain, London     Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Margaret Gainsborough holding a…

Mary Gainsborough

(?-1748) Mary in Art: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Daughter c.1748 National Gallery, London   Father Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mother Margaret Burr (1728-1798) Sister Mary Gainsborough (1750-1826) Brother-in-law Johann Christian Fischer (c.1733-1800) Sister Margaret Gainsborough (1751-1820)

William Morris

(1834–1896) The artist’s works: La Belle Iseult 1858 Tate Britain, London Peacock and Dragon 1878 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Strawberry Thief 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1896 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo A Girl with a…

Edward Burne-Jones

(1833–1898) Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, ARA The artist’s works: The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi 1861 Tate Britain, London King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1862 Tate Britain, London Ariadne 1863–1864 National Gallery of Art, Washington Princess Sabra 1865…

Algernon Charles Swinburne

(1837–1909) Works: • A Century of Roundels (English) • A Channel Passage and Other Poems (English) • A Dark Month (English) • A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems (English) • A Study of Shakespeare (English) • Astrophel and Other Poems…

John Ruskin

(1819–1900) The artist’s works: Snow Capped Alps c.1845–1849 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Budding Sycamore 1875 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Head of lake of Geneva s.d. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Sketches of a secretary vulture s.d. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton View of S. Anastasia…

William Bell Scott

(1811–1890) The artist’s works: Fair Rosamond Alone in Her Bower c.1853 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Fair Rosamund in her Bower after 1854 Private collection Algernon Charles Swinburne 1860 Private collection Works: • The Nursery Rhymes of England (as Illustrator) •…

G.K. Chesterton

(1874–1936) Gilbert Keith Chesterton Works: • A Chesterton Calendar (English) • A Miscellany of Men (English) • A Short History of England (English) • Alarms and Discursions (English) • All Things Considered (English) • Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works…