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| William Hilton The Birth of Triton before 1839 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
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| William Hilton The Mermaid of Galloway before 1839 oil on canvas Tabley House, Cheshire |
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| William Hilton Christ restoring Sight to the Blind 1812 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Charles Lock Eastlake Peasant Woman fainting from the Bite of a Serpent 1831 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Charles Lock Eastlake The Cave of Despair (scene from The Fairie Queene by Edmund Spenser) 1830 oil on canvas Sir John Soane's Museum, London |
from The Fairie Queene (book I, canto IX)
Ere long they come, where that same wicked Wight
His dwelling has, low in an hollow Cave,
Far underneath a craggy Clift ypight,
Dark, doleful, dreary, like a greedy Grave,
That still for carrion Carcasses doth crave:
On top whereof as dwelt the ghastly Owl,
Shrieking his baleful Note, which ever crave
Far from that haunt all other cheerful Fowl;
And all about it wandring Ghosts did wail and howl.
And all about, old stocks and Stubs of Trees,
Whereon nor Fruit, nor Leaf was ever seen,
Did hang upon the ragged rocky Knees;
On which had many Wretches hanged been,
Whose Carcasses were scattered on the Green,
And thrown about the Clifts. Arrived there,
That bare-head Knight, for dread and doleful teen,
Would fain have fled, ne durst approachen near:
But th' other forc'd him stay, and comforted in fear.
That darksom Cave they enter, where they find
That cursed Man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullen Mind;
His greazy Locks, long growen, and unbound,
Disordred hung about his Shoulders round,
And hid his Face; through which his hollow Eyne
Look'd deadly dull, and stared as astoun'd;
His raw-bone Cheeks, through Penury and Pine,
Were shrunk into his Jaws, as he did never dine.
His Garment, nought but many ragged Clouts,
With Thorns together pinn'd and patched was,
The which his naked Sides he wrap'd abouts;
And him beside there lay upon the Grass
A dreary Corse, whose Life away did pass,
All wallow'd in his own yet luke-warm Blood,
That from his Wound yet welled fresh, alas;
In which a rusty Knife fast fixed stood,
And made an open Passage for the gushing Flood.
– Edmund Spenser (1590)
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| Charles Lock Eastlake Brutus exhorting the Romans to avenge the Death of Lucretia 1814 oil on canvas Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead |
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| Paul Delaroche The Princes in the Tower (second version) 1831 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Paul Delaroche Sketch for Joan of Arc in Prison ca. 1823-24 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Paul Delaroche The State Barge of Cardinal Richelieu on the Rhône 1829 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Quentin Durward at Liège, Belgium (scene from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott) ca. 1827-28 oil on canvas Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Anne Page and Slender (scene from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor) ca. 1825 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| William Etty Pandora crowned by the Seasons 1824 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| William Etty Pandora crowned by the Seasons 1823-24 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Thomas Lawrence Georgiana Maria Leicester, Lady de Tabley as Personification of Hope ca. 1811 oil on canvas Tabley House, Cheshire |
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| François-Marius Granet Reading Lesson in a Convent 1810 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |