attributed to Bertholet Flemalle Flight of Cloelia ca. 1640 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Peter Paul Rubens Sketch for The Conversion of St Paul ca. 1610-12 oil on panel Courtauld Gallery, London |
Johann Georg Platzer Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium before 1761 oil on copper Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
William Etty Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia 1821 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg The Cutting-Out of the French Corvette La Chevrette 1802 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope The Waters of Lethe by the Plains of Elysium ca. 1880 tempera on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
Lethe
Only the Blessed of Lethe's dews
May stoop to drink. And yet,
Were their Elysium mine to lose,
Could I, sans all repining, choose
Life's sorrows to forget?
– Walter de la Mare (1940)
Giorgione Adoration of the Kings (altarpiece fragment) ca. 1506-1507 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
Peter Lely The Concert ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Courtauld Gallery, London |
Pierre Mignard Death of Cleopatra before 1695 oil on canvas National Trust, Knole, Kent |
attributed to Charles Lock Eastlake A Painter's Dream of Queen Victoria's Patronage of the Arts 1841 oil on canvas City Hall, Cardiff, Wales |
Anonymous Neapolitan Painter Joseph taken into Egypt 17th century oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Eduardo Léon Garrido Abduction of the Sabine Women 1874 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
Juan de Valdés Leal Allegory of the Crown of Life ca. 1655-65 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
Carlo Carlone Sketch for The Triumph of Wisdom ca. 1760 oil on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
John Constable Cloud Study 1821 oil on canvas Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |