Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) ‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Part II) 1915 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog c.1665 Oil on canvas, 81.3 × 64.1 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue de Volterra (View of Volterra) 1838 Oil on canvas, 32.2 x 24.4 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego In 1834, on his second trip to Italy, Corot spent a month in the 14th century hill town…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saint Bartholomew 1657 Oil on canvas, 122.7 x 99.7 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Rembrandt van Rijn is one of the greatest artists of all time and acclaimed for his compelling representations of the human condition. Known…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 68.6 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Zurbarán is recognized as one of the greatest Spanish painters of the seventeenth century. He…
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Nu féminin assis (Seated Female Nude) c.1916 Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 59.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is one of a series of celebrated female nudes which Modigliani painted in 1916 and 1917. His unusual…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nevermore 1897 Oil paint on canvas, 60.5 x 116 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Paul Gauguin painted Nevermore in February 1897, during his second and final stay in Tahiti, an island in the southern Pacific colonised by France. Intended…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Effet d’automne à Argenteuil (Autumn Effect at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 55 x 74.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Claude Monet lived in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris, from 1871 to 1878. It was an affordable…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place Lafayette, Rouen 1883 Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.7 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is one of 17 paintings produced by Camille Pissarro in 1883, during his first visit to the northern French city of…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (F 527, JH 1657) 1889 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This famous painting, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent van Gogh, expresses his artistic power and…