Tag: Walter Scott

Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans (c.1876-1878)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans c.1876–1878 Oil on canvas, 194 x 93 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam A standing young woman, full-length, in profile to the right. One of several paintings of standing women titled “Arrangement…”…

L’enlèvement de Rébecca (1846)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) L’enlèvement de Rébecca (The Abduction of Rebecca) 1846 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Throughout his career Delacroix was inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott, a favorite author of…

Sir Walter Scott

(1771–1832) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot Works: • Guy Mannering (English) • Ivanhoe (English) • Kenilworth (English) • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (English) • Marmion (English) • Old Mortality (English) • Quentin Durward (English) • Rob Roy…

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

(1834–1903) The artist’s works: At the Piano 1858–1859 Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati Billingsgate 1859 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Fantin-Latour drawing 1859 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Portrait of the Artist 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Lime Burner 1859 Victoria and Albert Museum, London…