Joseph Mallord William Turner

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

• The Slave Ship, full name, Slavers Throwing
  Overboard the Dead and DyingTyphoon Coming on
  (1840)
• Took place in 1783the captain threw the slaves
  overboard to collect insurance on the claim that
  they were lost at sea.
• Ruskin wrote, But I think the noblest sea that
  Turner has ever painted, and if so, the noblest
  certainly ever painted by man, is that of The
  Slave Ship.

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Sir John Everett Millais

• Christ in the Home of his Parents (1849)
• Notice the stigmata on the child.
• Many references to Jesuss later life appear in
  this picture.

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Millais

• Ophelia (1852)
• Lizzy Siddal posed in her bath, heated by lamps
  which went out, chilling the water and giving her
  a cold. Her father threatened to sue Millais if
  he didnt pay for her doctor bills.
• Siddal married D.G. Rossetti and later committed
  suicide.

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William Holman Hunt

• The Awakening Conscience (1854)
• The painter said that, she is recalling her home
  and purer days, breaking away from her gilded
  cage with a startled holy resolve, while her
  shallow companion still sings on, ignorantly
  intensifying her repentant purpose.
• Ruskin commented that the hem of her dress would
  soon be covered with mud.
• Many symbols in the painting reflect her
  position, including the cat and discarded glove.

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William Frith

• The Railway Station (1862)
• There are many small stories within the large
  painting.

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Augustus Egg

• Past and Present (1858)
• Image 1 of 3
• The man holds a letter which tells the storybut
  so do the details of the painting.
• Notice how the house of cards has fallen down.
• Even the paintings on the wall reflect the
  situation.

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Egg

• Image 2
• The motherless girls gaze at the moon.

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Egg

• Image 3
• Same night as image 2notice the same moon.
• The mother has a new baby snuggled to her breast.

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Ford Maddox Brown

• The Last of England (1855)
• Brown was his own model.
• Brown wanted to make the coldness of the picture
  authentic To insure the peculiar look of light
  all around, which objects have on a dull day at
  sea, it was painted for the most part in the open
  air on dull days, and when the flesh was being
  painted, on cold days. The weather made my hand
  look blue with the cold as I require it in the
  work, so I painted all day out in the garden.
• Brown wrote a sonnet to go with the painting,
  She grips his listless hand and clasps her
  child,/Through rainbow tears she sees a sunnier
  gleam,/She cannot see a void where he will be.

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Brown

• Work (1852-68)
• The painting represents both manual labor and
  brain workersThomas Carlyle and Rev. F. D.
  Maurice.
• Brown wrote a sonnet, Work, which beads the brow
  and tans the flesh/Of lusty manhood, casting out
  its devils,/By whose weird art transmuting poor
  mans evils/Their bed seems down, their one dish
  ever fresh.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Found (1853-82)
• Note the lamb tied in the cart symbolic of the
  womans situation.
• Rossetti was never happy about the phallic marker
  on the right of the man.

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Rossetti

• The Blessed Damozel (1875-78)
• Poem written 1847the first four stanzas are
  written on the base of the frame, designed by
  DGR.
• Woman in heaven loves man on earth.

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James Whistler

• Nocturne in Blue and Gold (Old Battersea Bridge)
  (1872-77)
• John Ruskin accused Whistler of flinging a pot
  of paint in the publics face with his style.
• Whistler sued Ruskin for libel. He won the case
  but was only awarded a farthing and was
  financially ruined.

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Whistler

• Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2 (1872)
• Portrait of Thomas Carlyle.

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Aubrey Beardsley

• How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into
  the Water (1894)
• Arthurian legend.