Ornamental

Rogier van der Weyden and workshop
Portrait of Burgundian courtier Jean Gros
ca. 1460-64
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder
Château de Blois
ca. 1570
ink and watercolor on vellum
British Museum

Abraham Willaerts
Portrait of a Shipowner with his Family
1650
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

Philips Wouwerman
Riding School and Pond
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jean-Antoine Watteau
Three Half-Length Studies of a Man
before 1721
drawing
British Museum

Richard Wilson
The White Monk
ca. 1760
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

John Downman
Miss Duntz of St Neot's
1776
drawing
British Museum

Vincenzo Camuccini
Head of Minerva
before 1844
drawing
British Museum

Williams, Brown & Earle (Philadelphia)
Fontana di Nettuno, Rome
ca. 1910
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Vanessa Bell
Abstract Painting
ca. 1914
oil on canvas
Tate Britain

Edward Wadsworth
Dazzle Ships in Dry Dock at Liverpool
1919
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Rudolf Bauer
White Fugue
1923-27
oil on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Composition no. 14
1925
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Guy Pène Du Bois
The Artist's Wife no. 2
1926
oil on canvas
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Jamie Wyeth
Red Life-Preserver
ca. 1959-60
watercolor on paper
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Joyce Wieland
Paint Phantom
1983-84
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Jonas Wood
Night Bloom Still Life
2015
oil and acrylic on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament

Because you have thrown off your prelate lord,

    And with stiff vows renounced his liturgy

    To seize the widowed whore plurality

    From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorred,

Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword

    To force our consciences that Christ set free,

    And ride us with a classic hierarchy

    Taught ye by mere A.S. and Rutherford?

Men whose life, learning, faith and pure intent

    Would have been held in high esteem with Paul

    Must now be named and printed heretics

By shallow Edwards and Scotch What-d'ye-call;

    But we do hope to find out all your tricks,

    Your plots and packing worse than those of Trent,

            That so the Parliament

May with their wholesome and preventive shears

Clip your phylacteries, though balk your ears,

            And succour our just fears

When they shall read this clearly in your charge

New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large. 

– John Milton (published 1673)