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'The Advance Guard'~ Georges Bertin Scott, (1905)
This watercolour shows two soldiers on horses trotting along a country road. On both sides of the road can be seen green grass with wild red flowers dotted around. Behind the soldiers are green fields as far as the horizon.
'Reflections: China and Japan'~ Sir William Orpen, (1902)
This is a virtuoso still life painting which demonstrates Orpen's facility at depicting texture and reflective surfaces with flair and skill, and with less emphasis placed on a coherent compositional arrangement.
'La Dame aux Perles'~ Sir John Lavery, (1901)
The sitter for this portrait has been identified by the art critic Walter Shaw Sparrow as Marguerite Von Höllrigl.
'Mrs Lavery Sketching'~ Sir John Lavery, (1910)
This full-length portrait depicts John Lavery's second wife Hazel, who was thirty years his junior. It was painted the year after their marriage in 1909.
'A Peasant Woman'~ Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, (1871)
A Peasant Woman is part of small series of works where he tackles the problems of painting white material against light with its opposing qualities of transparency and opacity.
'Burning Mountain (36/36)'~ Patrick Hall, (1993)
This is a six colour planographic print (lithograph) on paper.
'Sutton Courtenay'~ Sir John Lavery, (1917)
Lavery was a good colourist - evidenced here by the cool blue tones of the shadow s on the first punt, the repetition of these and the yellow of the dress in the bridge in the background and the green depths of the water below.
'James Stephens'~ Mary Duncan, (c. 1915)
James Stephens was typical of the new radical generation that came of age in the early 1900s. He was attracted by socialist ideas and cultural nationalism.
'A Peasant Woman'~ Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, (1871)
The Breton girl's white headdress is illuminated by the bright sunlight which pours in through a transparent white curtain. This painting also reveals Degas pre-occupation with countre-jour, modelling mass against light.
'Cat'~ Pauline Bewick, (1964)
This is a colour planographic print (lithograph) of a domestic tabby cat. The entire composition is in shades of orange.