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04/09/2026

Joseph Wright of Derby was an English painter who relished working in shadows and darkness. He was the first professional painter to illustrate the excitement of the Industrial Revolution and the advancement of science. 'An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump', 1768 explores the different dimensions of an experiment on a live bird suffering in a vacuum. The children find the experiment distressing as the white cockatoo becomes unconscious. The wonders of science are not exalted by Wright, merely observed.

27/08/2026

Reclining N**e Shepherdess, painted by Berthe Morisot in 1891. Berthe was one of the "three great ladies of Impressionism" alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. Morisot painted some fabulous paintings of women, and this is a superb example. Suspect Renoir would have thoroughly approved.

07/07/2026

Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall, Martin Johnson Heade, 1902, an artist of the romantic style and friend of the Hudson River School in the Western USA. He travelled to South America on several occasions and was clearly fascinated by hummingbirds and lush tropical landscapes.

01/07/2026

La Ghirlandata, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1873, with the model Alexa Wilding centre stage. Alexa distinguished herself by not starting a relationship with Rossetti, unlike his other muses, Elizabeth Siddal, Jane Morris and F***y Cornforth. Alexa's family came from the astonishingly beautiful town of Shrewsbury. May Morris, daughter of William Morris, takes up the corners. The Pre-Raphaelites were precursors of the later "s*x, drugs and rock-and-roll" movement.

11/06/2026

The Church at Varengeville, Claude Monet, 1882,

This painting of the Normandy coast by Claude Monet is a glorious vision of colours near sunset. Monet seemed to have the ability to never paint anything that wasn't original and beautiful.

02/05/2026

George Stubbs was a self-taught painter, the son of a leather-dresser. He made his name painting horses, dogs, lions, cheetahs and sheep. There is a small exhibition at the National Gallery of his horse portraits. One of his most famous paintings of a horse called Whistlejacket is also in the permanent collection. His painting of Scrub, A Bay Horse Belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham, comes from a private collection.

20/04/2026

Florence Claxton drew satirical cartoons for magazines and this is her only known oil painting, which she produced in 1861 when aged 22. Three women in the lower left are governesses, working on teaching a child from a dreary text. Above them a broken wall looking out to sea points to emigration, which had become a popular escape route for single women to find work or a husband. In the middle, a man is dropping sweets for the ladies beneath the golden calf. To the right a clergyman explains suitable professions for a woman, such as distributing religious pamphlets or being generally trivial. On the far right a woman sinks beneath a locked door, the man beside her has the key. the woman at the top of a ladder is Rosa Bonheur, a famous French artist, with art providing another route to freedom. Florence had little success selling her painting but she would be pleased to hear it sold for around £20,000 in 1981 and now hangs in Manchester City Art Gallery.

27/03/2026

Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. He was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. This is an unfinished painting of Jane Morris, his long time muse and friend. Called La Donna della Fenestra, the painting illustrates a passage from Dante's Vita Nuova, when grieving the death of his beloved Beatrice, he sees ‘a young and very beautiful lady’ looking at him ‘from a window with a gaze full of pity'.

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