Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Émile Bernard 1886 Oil on canvas, 54 x 44.5 cm Tate Britain, London This is a portrait of the painter Emile Bernard. At the time it was done Bernard was still only a teenager, and was a…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Vespertina Quies (Evening Quiet) 1893 Oil on canvas, 107.9 x 62.2 cm Tate Britain, London This picture evokes a mood of contemplation and stillness. Its Latin title means ‘Evening Quiet’. Burne-Jones is believed to have employed a model…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Golden Stairs 1880 Oil on canvas, 269.2 x 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1862 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Tate Britain, London Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Study of a head s.d. National…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Oil on canvas, 293.4 x 135.9 cm Tate Britain, London This work was based on Alfred Tennyson‘s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a…
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Le pont de Sèvres (The Bridge at Sèvres) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 38.1 × 46 cm Tate Britain, London The British painter Alfred Sisley was part of the French impressionist group. He painted ten works from the local…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Une assiette de pommes (A Plate of Apples) 1861 Oil on canvas, 20 × 26.4 cm Tate Britain, London This work was painted while Fantin-Latour was visiting Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards in Sunbury near London in 1861. Also…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Autoportrait (Self Portrait) 1860 Oil on canvas, 31.4 × 25.4 cm Tate Britain, London Fantin-Latour painted a number of self portraits in the years 1854–61 which were characterised by having summary backgrounds or no settings at all. In…