Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Swarm

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Portrait of Thomas Phillips R.A.
1821
plaster bust
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
The Silver Goblet
ca. 1728
oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum

Lucas van Leyden
David beheading Goliath
ca. 1513-14
drawing (study for unexecuted print)
British Museum

Gordon Onslow-Ford
A Present for the Past
1942
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1814
colossal plaster bust
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Still Life with Mug
ca. 1764
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art. Washington DC

Lucas van Leyden
Solomon worshipping a Pagan Idol
1514
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Gordon Onslow-Ford
The Transparent Woman
1940-41
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Portrait of King William IV
(the Duke of Clarence until his accession in 1830)
ca. 1830-31
plaster bust
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Still Life with Partridge and Pear
1748
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Lucas van Leyden
Fall of Man
ca. 1506
engraving
British Museum

Gordon Onslow-Ford
The Castle
1944
gouache and watercolor on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Mrs. Jordan, mistress of the Duke of Clarence
ca. 1831-34
terracotta sketch for portrait bust
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
La Tabagie
ca. 1757
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lucas van Leyden
Adam and Eve after Expulsion from Paradise
1510
engraving
British Museum

Gordon Onslow-Ford
Premonition: Swarm of Hearts
1943
gouache and watercolor on paper
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Francis Legatt Chantrey
Mrs Jordan and her Children
(mistress and children of the Duke of Clarence)
ca. 1831-34
terracotta sketch for sculpture
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

And Thymodes also, lamenting a death unforeseen,
Raised up this empty tomb for Lykos his son:

For him there is no grave, not even in a far land:
Some Thynian beach or Pontine island holds him,

And there, cheated of all the rites of burial,
His bones gleam naked on an unfriendly shore.

– from the Greek Anthology, translated by Dudley Fitts