Victorian Painters - Index
Header Painting: The Lady of Shalott (Detail)
John William Waterhouse, 1894
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Oil on canvas
86.3 x 142.2 cm
Tate Britain, London
© Estate of John William Waterhouse
Jan. 2015
Just a fraction of the artists I have pages for are listed below.
Some of the most beautiful works of art ever are here and I'm trying to present them in a unique way where the web page works around the work of art and not the other way round. By that I mean each page, each artist, has a main work at the top which is blended seamlessly into the colour of the rest of the page, Usually, you will find a pre formatted web page where a picture can be put bog standard anywhere. But to truly reflect the beauty of a work it has to be part of the page and not an add on.
Look around the web for yourself. This method has resulted in the pages being a 1000 times better looking in appearance than anything else I have seen. And at last, these great artists like Rossetti and Waterhouse are getting web pages that are truly reflecting the beauty of the work. Or trying to.
Of course this takes alot of time and work. Materially, I currently see little if anything for the work I put in which is frustrating. Hopefully, purchases of canvas prints of Victorian masters will help but that will be the only income these pages generate, I'm shortly constructing a store of Victorian bits n bobs which I'm calling 'Victorialand'. Not out of a real desire to sell artifacts but just to find something that will make a bit of money so I have the inspiration to expand these pages.
Other than that, trying to make these pages pay is an uphill struggle. Affiliate sales help a little but we are really talking about pennies. Advertising is hopeless - how do you entice a Victorian traveller with offers of viagra? So what do you do? Hope for the best, I guess. Or try and ask for donations no matter how big or small.
'ShareThis' does provide infinitely better traffic than anything else as, in my experience, it's people passing onto others what they like so are engaged with the subject matter. I would love to get traffic that is just 'word of mouth', so to speak.
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The list below is just a few of the artists I have pages for. There are 100s of others which won't appear on search engines. Once making a donation no matter how large or small I will send you a full list of the artists you can enjoy.
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Edwin Austin Abbey ~ Biog. & Gallery
Edwin Austin Abbey was a U.S. watercolourist, oil-painter and book illustrator. He spent alot of time living and working in Britain...more
Lawrence Alma-Tadema ~ Biog. & Gallery
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter of genre scenes set in Greece, Rome and Ancient Egypt...more
Sophie Anderson ~ Biog. & Gallery
Sophie Anderson was born in Paris, the daughter of a Parisian architect and an English mother. She studied portrait painting in her early years under Baron von Steuben in Paris...more
Beggarstaff Brothers ~ Biog. & Gallery
Beggarstaff Brothers was the name used by Sir W. Nicholson and James Pryde in their work together as poster artists...more
Rosa Bonheur ~ Biog. & Gallery
Rosa Bonheur. French animal painter widely acclaimed in her lifetime. Her best pictures, often of horses...more
Ford Madox Brown ~ Biog. & Gallery
Lordy, reading about the first thirty years of Ford Madox Brown's life, you cannot help but feel depressed...more
Edward Burne-Jones ~ Biog. & Gallery
Sir Edward Burne-Jones was one of the painters in the circle round William Morris and Rossetti...more
Augustus Egg ~ Biog. & Gallery
His painting Past and Present No. 1 was first exhibited in 1858 with no title, but it did have the inscription...more
Luke Fildes ~ Biog. & Gallery
Luke Fildes (1844-1927) was brought up by his grandmother, who in 1819 was present on the speaker's platform in Manchester at the Peterloo Massacre...more
John Anster Fitzgerald ~ Biog. & Gallery
John Anster Christian Fitzgerald avoided the oft-depicted fantasies of Shakespeare to create his own unique fairy world...more
Arthur Hughes ~ Biog. & Gallery
Arthur Hughes was born in London and studied to become a painter at the Royal Academy...more
William Holman Hunt ~ Biog. & Gallery
His father, a warehouse manager, reluctantly allowed him to enter the Royal Academy schools in 1844, where he met Millais...more
Charles Rennie Mackintosh ~ Biog. & Gallery
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1868, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an architect, decorator and painter...more
John Everett Millais ~ Biog. & Gallery
Why is it that John Everett Millais painted arguably the most famous picture in the history of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...more
Samuel Palmer ~ Biog. & Gallery
Samuel Palmer was a painter of pastoral landscape and the most important follower of Blake...more
John Orlando Parry ~ Biog. & Gallery
John Parry's by far most beautiful painting, London Street Scene (Billposting), c. 1837, is in the Alfred Dunhill Museum and Archive...more
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ~ Who Were They?
PRB, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The mysterious initials first appeared following Rossetti's signature on his Girlhood of Mary Virgin exhibited in 1849...more
Henriette Ronner-Knip ~ Biog. & Gallery
Born in Amsterdam in 1821, Henriette Ronner Knip came from an artistic family and she studied art under her father, Joseph Augustus Knip...more
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ Biog. & Gallery
I've actually been as close as six feet to Rosetti...more
Walter Sickert ~ Biog. & Gallery
Was Walter Sickert really 'Jack the Ripper'? I mean, really?...more
Marie Spartali Stillman ~ Biog. & Gallery
As occasional model for no less than Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, Marie Spartali Stillman remains a well-known face of the Pre-Raphealite era...more
Samuel Palmer ~ Biog. & Gallery
Samuel Palmer was a painter of pastoral landscape and the most important follower of Blake...more
Vincent van Gogh ~ Biog. & Gallery
Exactly one year before Vincent van Gogh was born, his mother had given birth to an already dead baby (stillborn). That baby had also been named Vincent...more
Fredrick Walker ~ Biog. & Gallery
Frederick Walker, ARA RWS, artist. The evocations of rural life by Frederick Walker were greatly admired for their successful blend of...more
John William Watterhouse ~ Biog. & Gallery
Waterhouse was one of the great Victorian artists, whose paintings were British neo-classical...more
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