#tate britain

[lionofchaeronea]

The Angel, Standing in the Sun, J.M.W. Turner, 1846

[colleendoran]

This photo of me drawing at the Tate Britain Museum in London was taken by my assistant and comic art restoration specialist Allan Harvey back in 2017 - when I still had hair.

I like to do studies of art while in museums, but sometimes I like to wig people out by drawing from my imagination, as I am doing here.

It was fun seeing people trying to figure out what I was copying when I wasn't actually copying anything.

Petty artist thrills. Good times.

I was sitting in front of William Holman Hunt's painting The Lady of Shallot.

[diemelusine]

Ophelia (1851) by John Everett Millais. Tate Britain.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916) "Orphans" (1885) Oil on canvas Social realism

[thepaintedroom]

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British/English, 1889-1946) • A Studio in Montparnasse • exhibited 1926 • Tate, Britain

[collectionstilllife]

Augustus John (British/Welsh, 1878-1961) • Blue Cineraria • c. 1928. • Tate Britain

[patrice-bergerons]

JMW Turner:

Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, exhibited 1842

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves, exhibited 1845

Rough Sea, c.1840–5

A Wreck, with Fishing Boats, c.1840–5

Seascape with Storm Coming On, c.1840

All paintings displayed in Tate Britain, Room 35, "Toil and Terror at Sea".

[artandthebible]

The Good Samaritan

Artist: Joseph Highmore (English, 1692–1780)

Date: 1744

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

This painting illustrates the parable of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke. The Samaritan has bound the wounds of an injured man attacked by robbers and is helping him to his feet. Heading off into the distance behind them are the priest and the Levite, who have ignored the man’s plight. The painting was made for the aristocrat John Sheppard, possibly for a private chapel in his home at Campsey Ashe in Suffolk. This makes it a comparatively rare example of a sacred subject commissioned from a British artist by an independent patron, outside of the church.

[galleryofart]

A Young Woman Playing the Harp

Artist: James Northcote (British, 1746–1831)

Date: 1814 (Exhibited)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description A Young Lady Playing the Harp, Exhibited 1814. Is an oil painting by the English artist and author James Northcote. It depicts a young harpist wearing a white dress tied with a long green sash, with a string of red beads around her neck. The harpist gazes forward, both hands raised to pluck the strings. She is seated against a rural backdrop dominated by a large, dark tree on the right, which frames her compositionally. The backdrop on the left, seen through the strings of the harp, features a twilit sky over hills and a lake.

[art-portraits]

Mother and Child

Artist: Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872–1945)

Date: 1903

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

Rothenstein made a number of portraits of his family and close friends in which the interior is as important as the figure. In this painting the artist’s wife Alice is shown with their first child John, aged about two. The interior is the family’s house in Hampstead. Without any narrative intent, the painting can be interpreted as a simple celebration of motherhood. Rothenstein greatly admired seventeenth-century Dutch painting, and the colouring, lighting and pervading stillness evidently owes a debt to Dutch painter Jan Vermeer.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee, 1900

[artsandculture]

The Blue Rigi, Sunrise (1842) 🎨 Joseph Mallord William Turner 🏛️ Tate Britain 📍 London, United Kingdom

The Blue Rigi depicts the Rigi mountain in central Switzerland, viewed from the southwest across Lake Lucerne. The "Queen of Mountains" is blue in the early morning light, wreathed by veils of morning mist. The tonality is built up with layers of color wash, with fine detail added through cross-hatching with a fine brush. Two “stars”, of which the brighter one often erroneously identified as Venus, glint in the yellow morning sky above, where paint has been scratched out with a fingernail to reveal the bright white ground. In the left foreground, drawn in with pen and brown ink, ducks can be seen rising from the lake, alarmed by a gunshot and chased by two dogs, to the right foreground.

[inkcoveredpoet]

The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper

The Lament for Icarus is a painting by Herbert James Draper, showing the dead Icarus, surrounded by lamenting nymphs. The wings of Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern. (From Wikipedia)

[boselliart]

[robert-hadley]

John Singer Sargent - Polly Barnard

[collectionstilllife]

Cedric Lockwood Morris (British,1889–1982) • Iris Seedlings • 1943• Tate Britain