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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:
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 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 Magic Circle is an 1886 oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse. Two copies of the painting were produced. The two paintings and a study depict a witch or sorceress using a wand to draw a fiery magic circle on the Earth to create a ritual space for her ceremonial magic. As was common in the period, Waterhouse ...
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May is an oil painting on canvas created in 1909 by British Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse. It was the second of two paintings inspired by the 17th century poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick which begins:
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.
Ophelia is a 1894 oil on canvas painting by the English painter John William Waterhouse, [1] depicting a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet.She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, a potential wife for Prince Hamlet.
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