"The Turtle Dove"

Sophie Anderson 1823-1903

Sophie Anderson was a French-born British artist who specialised in portraits of women and children

"Portrait of Orlovoi Davidovoi"

Christina Robertson 1796-1854

This Scottish artist worked as a court painter in Russia.

"Going to Work"

Daniel Ridgway Knight 1839-1924

This American artist was popular for his paintings of peasant women in outdoor settings.

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"Flora" 

Bartolomeo Veneto 1470-1531

It has been suggested that the sitter in this painting is Lucrezia Borgia

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"A Summer Night"

Alfred Joseph Moore - 1841-93

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"Florence Nightingale Receiving the Wounded at Scutari"

Jerry Barrett 1824-1906

This is the painting which made the artist famous. It's believed that, during the Crimean War, he travelled round the area making sketches just as newspaper photographers do today.

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"The Lady with the Ermine"

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

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"Dear Polly"

Seymour Joseph Guy 1824-1910

The artist was an American painter who is particularly remembered for his portrayal of children.

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"Motherhood"

Mary Cassatt 1845-1926 

American painter who lived most of her life in France where she exhibited among the Impressionists

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"Portrait of Cynthia"

William Strang 1859-1921

The artist, a Scottish painter and engraver, was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers.

Tomorrow - Motherhood, by Mary Cassatt

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"Sleeping Venus"

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco) 1477/8-1510

 Giorgioni was founder of the Venetian School of Italian Renaissance painting.

Tomorrow - Portrait of Cynthia, by William Strang

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"Cherries"

Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912

Tomorrow - Sleeping Venus, by Giorgioni

"Nell Gwynn"

Peter Lely 1618-80

Tomorrow - Cherries, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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"The Martyr of the Solway"
John Everett Millais 1829-96

The Covenanters were Scottish Presbyterians who resisted the English Episcopalian control of the Church. Many of the covenanters were put to death because of their beliefs. The martyrs, among whom 18 year old Margaret Wilson was one, were “ty’d to palisades fixed in the sand, within the flood mark, and there to stand till the flood overflowed them and drowned them.”

Tomorrow - Nell Gwynn, by Peter Lely

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"Gabrielle and Jean"

Pierre-August Renoir 1841-1919

The child in the painting is the artist's son who became a famous film director. Gabrielle was a relative  and close friend of the family.

Tomorrow -The Martyr of the Solway, by John Everett Millais

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JOHN writes:- There was a problem in posting Friday's painting "The Martyr of the Solway" by John Everett Millais. I intend to show it on Monday and I'm hoping that it will be displayed properly.

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"A Lady in a Fur Wrap"

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) 1541-1614

Born in Crete the artist settled in Spain where he was the architect of the Spanish Renaissance.

Tomorrow - Gabrielle and Jean, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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"Venus at a Mirror" circa 1614-15

Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640

Tomorrow's painting -

The Martyr of the Solway, by John Everett Millais

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"Anne Marie Dagnan" 1880

Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois 1852-1923

Tomorrow's Painting 

Venus at a Mirror, by Peter Paul Rubens

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"Portrait of the Artist's Mother"

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Born in Spain, Picasso spent most of his life in France where he won fame as a painter, sculptor and stage designer. One of the founders of the Cubist Movement, his best known painting is probably "Guernica" which depicts the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war.

Tomorrow's painting - "Anne Marie Dagnan" by Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois

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"Mona Lisa"

[also known as La Gioconda, La Joconde, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini]

Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

On permanent display in the Louvre, Paris, the painting has been acclaimed "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

It is said that Leonardo employed musicians, singers and jugglers to entertain the sitter while he worked on the painting.

Tomorrow's painting - a very attractive early Picasso, where the subject's facial features are all where they should be!!

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