Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Self-Portrait c.1640 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46 cm National Portrait Gallery, London This portrait is one of three known self-portraits painted by van Dyck when he was in England, and it probably dates from the last years…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Self-Portrait c.1799 Oil on canvas, 74.3 x 58.4 cm Tate Britain, London This confident-looking young man has just been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. The portrait therefore marks an important moment in Turner’s life. At…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Fille assise sous un arbre (A girl seated under a tree) c.1893–1894 Watercolor on paper, 23.3 x 36.1 cm British Museum, London Compare: Manet, Julie (1878-1966) Femme assise au Bois de Boulogne 1893–1894 British Museum, London The watercolour…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Première Sortie (At the Theatre) 1876–1877 Oil on canvas, 65 × 49.5 cm National Gallery, London We seem to be sitting in a box at the theatre, which we share with two young women. But we can’t be…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Garvagh / Madonna Aldobrandini (Garvagh Madonna or Aldobrandini) c.1510–1511 Oil on wood, 38.9 × 32.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of several small and medium-sized Madonnas made by Raphael in the years immediately following his arrival in…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46.5 cm National Gallery, London Monet’s earlier paintings of the Normandy coast had emphasised it as a working seascape, peopled with fishermen who had to…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Pièce d’eau à Kew, Londres (Ornamental Lake at Kew Gardens, London) 1892 Oil on canvas, 46 cm x 54.9 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta Like other French artists, Camille Pissarro moved his family to London at the outbreak…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 1835 Oil on canvas, 92 x 123.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fire consumed London’s famous Houses of Parliament on the night of…
Blake, William (1757-1827) God Judging Adam 1795 Relief etching, ink and watercolour on paper, 43.2 x 53.5 cm Tate Britain, London This is a hand-finished relief etching, printed on paper from a copper plate. The broken texture visible along the light grey…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi 1861 Oil on 3 canvases, 133.6 x 98.4 x 8.5 cm / 133.9 x 181.9 x 8 cm / 133.3 x 98.4 x 8 cm Tate Britain, London This triptych…