1. Victorian Art An Imperfect Legacy
Queen Victoria: Self Portrait 1846

2. 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

3. “St Cecilia” 1895
JW Waterhouse

4. “Rain, Steam and Speed”
J W Turner 1844

5. “Work”
Ford Madox Brown

6. “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”
E Burne-Jones

7. “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”
W P Frith

8. “Rhyll Sands” 1855
David Cox