Thursday, March 26, 2020

Painted Landscapes Enfolding Painted Figures

Thomas Bate
Thomas, Lord Coningsby seated in a Romantic Landscape with a view of Hampton Court
1692
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Julius Caesar Ibbetson
The Mermaids' Haunt
1804
oil on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Henry Thomson
Girl at a Spring (Nature's Fountain)
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire

Arthur Hughes
Fair Rosamund
1854
oil on cardboard
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Daydream
1880
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Renunciation – is a piercing Virtue –
The letting go
A Presence – for an Expectation –
Not now –
The putting out of Eyes –
Just Sunrise –
Lest Day –
Day's Great Progenitor –
Outvie
Renunciation – is the Choosing
Against itself –
Itself to justify
Unto itself –
When larger function –
Make that appear –
Smaller – that Covered Vision – Here –

– Emily Dickinson (1863)

Charles Edward Perugini
A Summer Shower
1888
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

Thomas Cooper Gotch
A Golden Dream
1893
oil on canvas
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire

Charles Hodge Mackie
The Faggot Gatherers
ca. 1893-97
oil on panel
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Ludwig von Hofmann
Idyll (Männlicher und weiblicher Halbakt in der Landschaft)
ca. 1894-95
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Henry Herbert La Thangue
Gathering Plums
1901
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Byam Shaw
Boer War (1900-1901)
Last Summer Things Were Greener
1901
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
The Little Foot Page
1905
oil on panel
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Charles Haslewood Shannon
Sleeping Wood Nymph
ca. 1905
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Nancy Tennant
Willow Trees, Wiltshire
1936
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Oskar Kokoschka
The Crab
1939-40
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London