#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.

[die-rosastrasse]

Hoping I will visit Tate again one day 🖤

[collectionstilllife]

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

[thepaintedroom]

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

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) "The North-West Passage" (1874) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Located in the Tate Britain, London, England The painting depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book. On the desk is a large chart depicting complex passageways between incompletely charted islands.

Millais exhibited the painting with the subtitle "It might be done and England should do it", a line imagined to be spoken by the aged sailor. The title and subtitle refer to the repeated failure of British expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, a navigable passageway around the north of the American continent. These expeditions "became synonymous with failure, adversity and death, with men and ships battling against hopeless odds in a frozen wilderness." The search for the northwest passage had been undertaken repeatedly since the voyages of Henry Hudson in the early 17th century. The most significant attempt was the 1845 expedition led by John Franklin, which had disappeared, apparently without trace. Subsequent expeditions had found evidence that Franklin's two ships had become stuck in ice, and that the crews had died over a number of years from various causes, some having made unsuccessful attempts to escape across the ice. These later expeditions were also unable to navigate a route between Canada and the Arctic. Millais had the idea for the painting when a new expedition to explore the passage, the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares, was being prepared.

[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)

[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".

[boselliart]

[robert-hadley]

John Singer Sargent - Polly Barnard

[lionofchaeronea]

The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee, 1900

[actaecon]

Tate Britain London

[victoriansquirrel]

Went to the Sargent and Fashion exhibition last week and wasn’t prepared for this. Excuse the shoddy quality, I was too excited

[collectionstilllife]

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

[matyas-ss]

The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse (1888). Tate Britain