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 |