While Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings, / While quacks of State must each produce his plan, / And even children lisp the Rights of Man; / Amid this mighty fuss let me mention, / The Rights of Woman merit some attention. - ROBERT BURNS

Friday, September 6, 2013

"Leonilla Bariatinskaya, Princess of Sayn-Wittenstein-Sayn"

 

Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1805-73

There are now 180 paintings in this blog and the above portrait brings the series to an end.
The new blog "My Selection of 19th Century British Paintings" begins tomorrow -

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Monday, September 2, 2013

"Diana and her Nymphs"


Jacob Van Loo 1614-70
BLOG NEWS - "The Eternal Venus" will have shown 180 paintings by Friday and will come to an end then. "My Own Selection of Pre-Raphaelite Paintings" which ran from June 2010 to June 2011 returns on Saturday 7th with a new title "My Own Selection of British Art of the 19th Century" but using the same address - http://myownselection.blogspot.com
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Monday, August 5, 2013

"Clytie"

 

Louis Welden Hawkins 1849-1910

"Clytie" was the name of eight different characters in Greek mythology

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Sunday, August 4, 2013

"Roxanne in Jean-Baptiste Racine's Bajazet"


Eugene Francois Marie Joseph Deveria 1805-65

A new series "The Paintings of Jan Vermeer" begins today on John's Gallery

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

"A Vision of Fiammetta"


Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-82
(Fiametta, Italian for little flame, was the pseudonym of Boccaccio's beloved muse)

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013

"Helen of Troy"


Evelyn de Morgan 1855-1919

NEW -  now online - NEW
OH WHAT A PICTURE
my choice of public domain images

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Thursday, July 25, 2013