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Born in 1827: English painter (1827-1910)

Portrait of Stephen Lushington (1782-1873), 1862

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2020-04-02

Hey Ella, thanks for the thread! Hope you're doing all right 🌟

Which parts of your style are deliberate choices and which developed naturally? For me the poses are always really deliberately chosen and inspired by medieval and preraphaelite art. My palettes are p spontaneous.

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2020-03-30

My latest painting accepted by the Open Exhibition which will soon be online.
'Scheherazade' 2020 oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm

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2020-03-29

Epic! Meanwhile in France we are doing the

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2020-03-29

It's so grab a book or listen to readings online. Oscar-winning was inspired paintings as a child, & some of his gorgeous LOTR illustrations feature in Beyond the Brotherhood, including Helm's Deep & the beautiful Luthien.

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2020-03-25

Throwback to a piece I painted especially for Spectrum Fantastic Art live in 2014. She was also featured in ne which went over my painting process <3⁠
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2020-03-25

John Melhuish Strudwick (1849-1937).

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2020-03-19

"Ophelia" by John William Waterhouse (1910).

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2020-03-17

"Hope Comforting Love in Bondage" by Sidney Harold Meteyard (1901).

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2020-03-11

Slow start, so had time to think about - & how Gabriel Rossetti was drawn to eerie subjects,
like the Doppelgängers in ‘How they met themselves’ (1864) or his many images of ‘Angel footfalls’ from Poe’s ‘The Raven’.

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2020-03-05

"The passing of the soul at death" by Evelyn de Morgan (1918).

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2020-03-03

"The Kingdom of heaven suffereth violence" by Evelyn de Morgan.

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2020-02-28

🎶...that's when I want....some weird sin🎶...'Thisbe' 1909, after

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2020-02-19

Arthurian legend in art

The Beguiling of Merlin - Edward Burne-Jones
Morgan le Fay - Frederick Augustus Sandys
Sir Galahad - Arthur Hughes

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2020-02-17

Edmund Blair Leighton's medieval paintings (1852-1922).

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2020-02-14

"Fair Rosamund" by John William Waterhouse (1916), at a private collection.

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2020-02-04