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history of painting
Paintings by Edgar Degas, John Brett, Alfred Hunt, Giuseppe De Nittis, Marià Fortuny, Renoir, Joseph Stella, and others.
Paintings by Thomas Jones, Giovanni Battista Lusieri, JMW Turner, Achille Michallon, JC Dahl, Carl Gustav Carus, Ivan Aivazovsky, and Clarkson Stanfield.
Hiding a Catholic priest during a Protestant purge, a young boy interrogated by Roundheads, an affluent woman defendant, and the body of a wife at the foot of the stairs.
By William Blake, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edward Burne-Jones and others, Edward Stott, Albin Egger-Lienz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kazimierz Sichulski.
By William Blake, Gérôme, Fritz von Uhde, Maurice Denis, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, and Joseph Stella. Merry Christmas!
Soldiers on the front in the First World War, a young woman slaving as a seamstress, Dickens’ miserly Scrooge, and Polish ‘exiles’ in Siberia – those we should be thinking of this Christmas.
Paintings from the late careers of Félix Vallotton, Robert Bevan, Nikolai Astrup, George Bellows, Théo van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard and Lovis Corinth.
Significant paintings based on The Sleeping Beauty, Mariana and Mariana in the South, and Break, Break, Break.
Paintings based on Endymion, The Eve of St. Agnes, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, mainly from the Pre-Raphaelites.
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