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This is a list of the paintings by the British Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse. 1870s. Image Name Year Current Location Ref The Slave: 1872:
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley The Unwelcome Companion: A Street Scene in Cairo is an early painting by John William Waterhouse . Completed in 1873, it was exhibited at the gallery of the Society of British Artists .
The most controversial aspect of Waterhouse's painting was his depiction of the Sirens, as it differed greatly from contemporary Victorian era conceptions. While many of the original audience had expected to see the Sirens as mermaid-like nymphs, they were surprised to find them as bird-like creatures with women's heads. [1]
Paintings by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) — Pre-Raphaelite English painter. Pages in category "Paintings by John William Waterhouse" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Lady of Shalott, an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting, is one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works. It depicts a scene from Tennyson's poem in which the poet describes the plight and the predicament of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an ...
The Sorceress is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse completed between 1911 and 1915. [1] [2] It is his third depiction, after Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891) and Circe Invidiosa (1892), of the Greek mythological character, Circe, and her name is on the back of the canvas. [1]
Waterhouse was born in the city of Rome to the English painters William and Isabella Waterhouse in 1849, in the same year that the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, were first causing a stir in the London art scene. [3]
The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1917, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .