Becoming more popular in the late 1880s and early 1890s, ‘problem pictures’ from Marie Spartali Stillman, Henrietta Rae, Millais, and others.
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The answer’s to last Saturday’s riddles. How well did you do this week?
Three more riddles to puzzle and entertain you over the weekend. Solutions will be given on Monday.
Fine examples from Millais, Berthold Woltze, Yeames, William Quiller Orchardson, and Degas.
The answers to last Saturday’s three riddles. How did you do this week?
Three more riddles to wrestle with over the weekend. Answers on Monday.
Two paintings from Edgar Degas have still, 150 years later, defied all attempts to resolve their narratives. Another from Britain, and one from the American Eastman Johnson.
How many did you get right this weekend?
This weekend’s entertainment for the mind: three puzzles to work out before the answers appear on Monday.
In the 19th century, readers enjoyed detective and ‘mystery’ novels. From 1850, artists like William Holman Hunt and Berthold Woltze tried the same in paint.
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