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Duny and Pavetta in the style of Acrasia, by John Melhuish Strudwick

Collaboration with who did the lovely lineart! Thank you!!

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2023-01-04

The music faintly falling, 1893 by John Melhuish Strudwick

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2022-11-02

Bower of Bliss: 'Acrasia' by John Melhuish Strudwick (1888, private collection) for this week's The inspiration is Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", with the enchantress Acrasia depicted surrounded by handmaidens with a knight at her mercy....

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2022-10-19

Elaine of Astolat and her unrequited love for Launcelot, taken from Arthurian legend and reimagined by Tennyson, is today’s

Painted by John Melhuish Strudwick, she stares fixedly at the shield of Launcelot she has carefully and reverently placed and swaddled.

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2022-10-17

John Melhuish Strudwick (6 May 1849 – 16 July 1937 ) was an English painter-.jpg"

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2022-06-17

Circe and Scylla,
John Melhuish Strudwick, 1886.

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2022-02-27

Circë and Scylla, John Melhuish Strudwick 1886

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2022-01-07

Painting by John Melhuish Strudwick

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2021-12-06

It was with great sadness that the Lord Lyon and the Court of Lord Lyon heard of the death of Major General Mark Strudwick CBE, former Governor of Edinburgh Castle and former Prior of the Venerable Order of St John in Scotland. Our condolences are with his widow and family.

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2021-09-28

John Melhuish Strudwick

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2021-09-13

A Golden Thread by John Melhuish Strudwick (GB, 1849-1937). When it was exhibited in 1885 it came with the lines: 'Right true it is that these/ And all things else that under Heaven dwell/ Are changed of Time'. BOTTOM: The Fates spin the allocated lifetime. Pre-Raphaelite style.

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2021-06-20

A Golden Thread (c. 1885) by John Melhuish Strudwick (England, 1849-1937). [Bottom half] The Fates spin the thread of life. Their spindles show part gold and part grey threads, the gold part will measure out the allotted span of a person's life.

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2021-05-19

A Golden Thread (exhib. 1885) by John Melhuish Strudwick (GB, 1849-1937). Bottom level: The three Fates are spinning the thread of life. Pre-Raphaelite style, Strudwick was a pupil of Edward Burne-Jones.

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2021-03-20

A Golden Thread (exhib. 1885) by John Melhuish Strudwick (England, 1849-1937). ABOVE: A girl and her lover are talking. Their happiness is being determined by the Fates. BELOW: The three Fates are spinning the thread of life.

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2021-02-19

There's a Welsh St. Elli from the 6th century (remember then? No wi-fi, nowt!) & then there's St. Eli ... a rapper.
Brilliant.
Never mind, I'll stick with St Cecilia.
I've just seen a shower curtain for sale!
Thanks Mr. M - Love ya! 🌛🎃🌜
"St. Cecilia" by John Melhuish Strudwick

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2020-10-08

“Ramparts of God’s House” (det.)
~ John Melhuish Strudwick

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2020-10-04

This is John Melhuish Strudwick's 1890 painting, The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day! The style to me seems to have been influenced particularly by Edward Burne-Jones.

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2020-09-22