In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
Brown
Shackles of the night, in a well, as a rope ladder how Romeo meets Juliet, trussing up a robber, or hanging John Brown, the abolitionist.
Come walk in the blustery breeze of autumn/fall, with Hokusai, Clarkson Stanfield, Ford Madox Brown, Courbet, Millet, and others.
Tristram and Isode soon became lovers, and King Mark flew into a rage. Tristram escaped death, then became mad. After they were reconciled, Mark murdered the knight.
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
Once popular in wall paintings and miniatures across Europe, these legends were revived in the nineteenth century and adopted by the Pre-Raphaelites.
A plain near Dresden, the floodplains of Silesia, Backwaters in Essex, York Harbour on the coast of Maine, the Pontic Steppe, Skagen in Denmark, and more.
From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer.
From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others.
Two artists painted panoramas full of miniature stories, which assembled into broad summaries of contemporary society: Frith and Ford Madox Brown.