Thursday, February 20, 2020

Interiors - Painted Views - Populated (II)

Florence Seth
Library at Chancellor's House, Hyde Park Gate, London
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
National Trust, Belton House, Lincolnshire

Francis Cadell
Interior - The Orange Blind
ca. 1927
oil on canvas
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

Aidan Savage
Lord Chancellor Cave in the River Room
ca. 1928
oil on canvas
Parliamentary Art Collection, London

Alec Cobbe
Imaginary Self Portrait
1988
acrylic on board
National Trust, Hatchlands, Surrey

Herbert Davis Richter
Things Supplementary
ca. 1923
oil on canvas
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside

Vanity (I)

        The fleet astronomer can bore
And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing mind:
He views their stations, walks from door to door,
        Surveys, as if he had designed
To make a purchase there; he sees their dances,
                And knoweth long before
Both their full-eyed aspects, and secret glances.

        The nimble diver with his side
Cuts through the working waves, that he may fetch
His dearly-earnèd pearl, which God did hide
        On purpose from the venturous wretch;
That he might save his life, and also hers
                Who with excessive pride
Her own destruction and his danger wears.

        The subtle chymic can divest
And strip the creature naked, till he find
The callow principles within their nest:
        There he imparts to them his mind,
Admitted to their bed-chamber, before
                They appear trim and dressed
To ordinary suitors at the door.

        What hath not man sought out and found,
But his dear God? who yet his glorious law
Embosoms in us, mellowing the ground
        With showers and frosts, with love and awe,
So that we need not say, "Where's this command?"
                Poor man, thou searchest round
To find out death, but missest life at hand.

– George Herbert (1633)

William Collingwood
Antique Interior at West Hill House, Hastings
1842
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

John Lavery
The van Dyck Room, Wilton
1920
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Jean de Gaigneron
Benedict Nicolson as a Child at Long Barn
ca. 1920
oil on board
National Trust, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent

Roger de Grey
Interior - Evening
1960
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

William Somerville Shanks
Interior
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Frederick William Elwell
My Neighbour's House
1929
oil on canvas
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Edward Halliday
Evelyn Fitzmaurice, Duchess of Devonshire
1950
oil on canvas
National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Philip de László
Interior with Viscount and Viscountess Lee of Fareham
1925
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Frits Guldbrandsen
A Student's Room
ca. 1838
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Harold Gilman
Interior with Mrs Mounter
ca. 1916-17
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford