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The painting was inspired by a visit by the Dyce family to Pegwell Bay in August 1857. Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet on the coast of Kent between Ramsgate and Sandwich, at the estuary of the River Stour, Kent. It was a popular Victorian holiday destination, with tea gardens and donkey rides. The bay was also a popular place for fossil hunters.
Feeding the Swans. Edith Hayllar (1860–1948) was a British artist born to James Hayllar, [1] an acclaimed Victorian artist known for his genre paintings. Edith Hayllar had four brothers and four sisters, of whom, Jessica Hayllar (1858–1940), [2] Mary Hayllar (1863–1950), [3] and Kate Hayllar (fl. 1883–1900), also became notable artists in their own right; all received their training ...
Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory; Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer; J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter; Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954 ...
Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which made the United Kingdom one of the most powerful and advanced nations in the world.
Anna Blunden, later Anna Blunden Martino, (22 December 1829 – 1915) was an English Pre-Raphaelite artist. [1] She was a member of John Ruskin's circle and was one of a number of women artists working and exhibiting during the Victorian age.
William Edward Frost (self-portrait), 1839. Venus and Cupid. William Edward Frost (September 1810 – 4 June 1877) was an English painter of the Victorian era.Virtually alone among English artists in the middle Victorian period, he devoted his practice to the portrayal of the female nude.
Sarah Biffin was born on 25 October 1784 in East Quantoxhead, Somerset [1] to her father Henry Biffin, a shoemaker, and his wife Sarah.She was born with no arms and undeveloped legs – a result of the congenital condition phocomelia, [2] and would grow to a height of 37 inches.