 |
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema A Lover of Art 1868 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
 |
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema Love in Idleness ca. 1891 oil on canvas Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
 |
| Lawrence Alma-Tadema Etruscan Vase Painters 1871 oil on panel Manchester Art Gallery |
 |
| John Collier Artemis ca. 1890 oil on canvas Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside |
 |
| John William Godward On the Terrace 1904 oil on canvas National Trust, Holmwood House, Glasgow |
 |
| John William Godward A Favourite Poet 1920 oil on canvas Wigan Museum, Manchester |
Dear Reader
You have forgotten it all.
You have forgotten your name,
where you lived, who you
loved, why.
I am simply
your nurse, terse and unlovely
I point to things
and remind you what they are:
chair, book, daughter, soup.
And when we are alone
I tell you what lies
in each direction: This way
is death, and this way, after
a longer walk, is death,
and that way is death but you
won't see it
until it is right
in front of you.
Once after
your niece had been to visit you
and I said something about
how you must love her
or she must love you
or something useless like that,
you gripped my forearm
in your terrible swift hand
and said, she is
everything – you gave
me a shake – everything
to me.
And then you fell
back into the well. Deep
in the well of everything. And I
stand at the edge and call:
chair, book, daughter, soup.
– Rita Mae Reese (2011)
 |
| John William Godward On the Balcony 1898 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
 |
| Edward Poynter On the Terrace 1889 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
 |
| Frederic Leighton Greek Girls playing Ball ca. 1870 oil on canvas Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland |
 |
| Albert Joseph Moore A Reader ca. 1877 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
 |
| Henrietta Rae Roses of Youth ca. 1906-1907 oil on canvas Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
 |
| Charles Edward Perugini At Play ca. 1880 oil on canvas Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
 |
| Valentine Cameron Prinsep At the Golden Gate ca. 1882 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
 |
| Harold Speed Lillah McCarthy as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 1913 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
 |
| David Gleeson Aphrodite in the British Museum 1996 acrylic on linen Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries, Wales |