Roderic O'Conor Interior ca. 1909-1910 oil on canvas The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent |
Walter Russell The Morning Room ca. 1910 oil on canvas Lotherton Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire |
Stanhope Alexander Forbes The Harbour Window 1910 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
William Banks Fortescue Watering the Garden Room ca. 1910 oil on canvas Garden Museum, London |
Spencer Gore The Blue Petticoat ca. 1912 oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland |
William Rothenstein Eric Gill with Alice Mary née Knewstub, Lady Rothenstein 1914 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, London |
"Since Fiona MacCarthy's biography of Gill in 1989, the artist's polymorphous sexual life had come to be a matter of public consciousness. The list of Gill's crimes and misdemeanours included a long-term incestuous relationship with his sister, Gladys, and a variety of obsessive sexual experiments, many of them recorded meticulously in his diaries. Not even the dog, it seems, was safe from Gill's curiosity. The most powerful scandal, however, was the revelation that Gill had engaged in sexual behaviour with his pubescent daughters, behaviour which Gill seems to have viewed in the same spirit of fearless experiment, but which by anyone else's definition would count as sexual abuse."
"The problem of how to rescue the artworks from that knowledge will not go away easily. But what is most challenging about Gill's fall from grace is that it is not the scandal of an artist whose sexual convictions were at odds with the doctrines of his faith, but an artist who pursued consequences of those doctrines in his life and art with a zeal which was intuitively orthodox, responding to ancient theological questions, and at the same time sometimes disproportionate to the point of derangement, and damaging to those around him."
– James Williams, writing in Apollo (April, 2017)
John William Waterhouse Fair Rosamund (Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England, 12th century) 1916 oil on canvas private collection |
Harold Gilman Interior ca. 1917 oil on canvas British Council Collection, London |
Walter Sickert Ethel Sands descending the Staircase at Newington ca. 1920 oil on canvas The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire |
Solomon Joseph Solomon The Breakfast Table 1921 oil on canvas Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London |
William Bruce Ellis Ranken Mary of Teck, Consort of King George V 1923 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
Frederick Hawkesworth Sinclair Shepherd The Music Room ca. 1925 oil on canvas Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire |
Frederick Hawkesworth Sinclair Shepherd Drawing Room Interior ca. 1930 oil on canvas Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire |
Mabel Frances Layng Girls Dressing ca. 1920-30 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
Leonard Campbell Taylor Memories before 1934 oil on canvas Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |