Victorian Art An Imperfect Legacy Queen Victoria: Self Portrait 1846
In the early 1960s, Andrew Lloyd Webber asked his grandmother for a loan of £50 to buy Lord Leighton’s painting of “Flaming June” from a shop in the Fulham Road. Her response was ” No, I will not have Victorian Junk in my flat!” “Flaming June” 1895 Lord Leighton 1830-1896
“St Cecilia” 1895 JW Waterhouse 1849-1917
“Rain, Steam and Speed” J W Turner 1844
“Work” 1852-1865 Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893
“The Sleeping Beauty” 1885-1890 Even the great artist Edward Burne Jones could not resist putting everyone to sleep in his beautiful painting of “The Sleeping Beauty”. “The Sleeping Beauty” 1885-1890 E Burne-Jones 1833-1898
“The Derby Day” 1858-58 W P Frith 1819-1909 However artists soon realized that they could use photographs to achieve realistic representations more easily. William Frith was the first to do so in his very successful painting of England at play on “Derby Day”. “The Derby Day” 1858-58 W P Frith 1819-1909
“Rhyll Sands” 1855 David Cox 1783-1859