Declining health, tuberculosis and riding accidents, but he still painted the Epsom Derby, Mazappa, and ten portraits of those with psychiatric illness.
Category Archive: Painting
Most are savage in winter, and ascended from close to sea level. The highest of the 282 Scottish peaks over 3,000 feet is Ben Nevis.
Sleeping Beauty, a morning nude, in sickness, and the deathbed. Killed in bed, two unusual depictions of the Virgin Mary in bed, and one of a bed floating on the River Seine.
Huge divans, closed wooden cabinets, and iron bedsteads. In love, marriage, adultery, problem pictures, and the erotic.
Cupid gets revenge on Apollo by making him fall in love with Daphne, and she refusing to co-operate. The result is her being transformed into the laurel.
The Newlyn School in Cornwall flourishes and gains international acclaim during the early 20th century. Coastal landscape paintings to 1922.
The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.
The Raft of the Medusa shown at the Salon, then the following year in London, and again in Dublin. The start of his search for a successor theme.
A selection of his early paintings, and an account of the year he spent preparing and painting his masterwork, the Raft of the Medusa.
Mountain people painted in the late 19th century: Hutsuls by Axentowicz and others, and those of the Engadine by the stateless Segantini.
The Eclectic Light Company 