The Meeting of Sir Thomas More With His Daughter After His Sentence to Death

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William Frederick Yeames

(English, 1835-1918)

The Meeting of Sir Thomas More With His Daughter After His Sentence to Death, 1863

Oil on canvas

After the reading of his sentence, the constable escorted More to an awaiting barge, which carried him the short ways down the Thames toward the Tower of London.  The party disembarked the barge at Old Swan Stairs.  An armed guard led More, dressed in a coarse woolen gown, up Old Swan Lane and down Thames Street.  As More and his guards approached the Tower, his daughter Margaret knelt to receive his blessing, then embraced and kissed him.  More then was escorted through the large crowd back to his cell, where he would spend the last six days of his life.

Account found here.

Picking Poppies, Sora

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Viggo Christian Frederick Pedersen

(Danish, 1854-1926)

Picking Poppies, Sora, 1884

Oil on canvas

The Reluctant Pianist

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William A. Breakspeare

(English, 1855-1914)

The Reluctant Pianist, ????

Oil on canvas

I don't know what's going on, but it's a gorgeous painting! Any ideas?

The Haunted House

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John Atkinson Grimshaw

(English, 1836-1893)

The Haunted House, 1874

Oil on canvas

I love mysterious landscapes.

If Music Be the Food of Love

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William A. Breakspeare

(English, 1855-1914)

If Music Be the Food of Love, ????

Oil on canvas

The title is taken from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night:

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.

 I wonder if the whole quote is supposed to apply to the painting. I'm still not sure of the expression on the girl's face, but she seems rather sad. And the man just looks evil. But it's a gorgeous and very interesting painting, so enlarge it and check it out!

Profile Portrait of Ellen Smith

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George Price Boyce

(English, 1826-1897)

Profile Portrait of Ellen Smith, ????

Oil on panel

 Ellen Smith was a popular model in the 1860s, sitting not only to Boyce but Rossetti and Burne-Jones amongst many others.

A Day's Outing

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Federico Andreotti

(Italian, 1847-1930)

A Day's Outing, ????

Oil on canvas

Happy French people, yay!

An Angel Playing a Flageolot

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Edward Burne-Jones

(British, 1833-1898)

An Angel Playing a Flageolot, 1878

Tempera and gold paint on paper

You can zoom in on this painting and all its glory here.

At the Window

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Winslow Homer

(American, 1836-1910)

At the Window, 1872

Oil on canvas

The New Novel

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Winslow Homer

(American, 1836-1910)

The New Novel, 1877

Watercolor on paper