Self-help thatching and maintaining your scythe, blacksmiths hard at work in their forges, a tilt-hammer in another forge, and a tinker fixing pots.
Ward
Turning harvested and threshed grain into food required it to be crushed into flour in mills, powered either by wind or water.
Equestrian paintings of those who followed George Stubbs: Théodore Géricault, James Ward, Horace Vernet, Eugène Delacroix, and Edgar Degas.
Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.
The humble beast of burden, carrying drunken kings, Mary and the infant Jesus, the Good Samaritan, Sancho Panza, and young lambs.
Odysseus and Circe, the prodigal son, Gadarene swine, Sant Anthony, and in portraits: everything to see about pigs and their swineherds.
Loyal unto death, dogs as companions to knights, bored Venetian ladies, successful artists, royalty, nude women, and Marthe Bonnard.
Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Morland, James Ward, Gustave Courbet, and others, showing plenty of pigs.
Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.
Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.
