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

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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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Thursday, August 15, 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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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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