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| Peter Tillemans Queen Anne in the House of Commons ca. 1709-1714 oil on canvas Parliamentary Art Collection, London |
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| William Hodges and William Pars Interior of the Pantheon, London ca. 1770-80 oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Yorkshire |
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| William Frederick Witherington A Modern Picture Gallery 1824 oil on canvas National Trust, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire |
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| James Digman Wingfield The Bank Parlour ca. 1850 oil on canvas Bank of England Museum, London |
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| John Fulleylove All Souls College Library ca. 1880 oil on canvas All Souls College, University of Oxford |
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| Anonymous British Artist Interior of the Aquarium, Scarborough late 19th century oil on canvas Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
The Realists
Hope that you may understand.
What can books, of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land;
Paintings, of the dolphin-drawn
Sea nymphs in their pearly waggons,
Do but wake the hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons.
– William Butler Yeats (1912)
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| Steven Spurrier Little Restaurant ca. 1905 oil on canvas Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Scotland |
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| Cyrus Cuneo The Diners 1913 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Frank O. Salisbury The Entrance Hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum 1915 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| William Bruce Ellis Ranken Interior of the Great Hall, Greenwich 1919 oil on canvas National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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| George Percy Jacomb-Hood Guest Night, Merchant Taylors' Hall 1922 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
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| Malcolm Drummond The Stag Tavern 1929 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Thomas Cantrell Dugdale Underground 1932 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Gretta Bowen Library ca. 1953 oil on paper Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Bernard Dunstan Sale at Christie's ca. 1960 oil on board Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales |