After his death, over 1500 of his pastels were sold, the great majority of which have since disappeared. Here are some of the finest of the survivors.
Delacroix
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Paintings from the second half of the 19th century, from Aivazovsky, Delacroix, Winslow Homer and others, as a prelude to The Tempest.
Its two scenes with witches are most famous, and often confused. There’s more to this play, though, and other scenes in fine paintings.
If you remember one Shakespeare play well, it’s Romeo and Juliet, shown here in paintings of the balcony scene, and the couple’s tragic deaths.
David’s Neoclassicism brought uniformity and lack of surface texture. Romanticism followed, with garments dissolving into brushstrokes.
Two marvellous plein air oil sketches of washermen contrast with his densely populated history paintings, and there’s even an Italian landscape.
A famous and prolific Spanish history painter of the late 19th century, the centenary of whose death we mark next week. Early paintings, and a Delacroix.
To celebrate the life and work of Dante, a small selection of paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy, and his ‘Vita Nuova’.
Many of our lives start and end in them, and between we spend at least a third of our life in bed. Paintings from Delacroix to Ravilious.
