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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 William Frith
The Railway Station
(1862)
There are many small
stories within the large
painting.
 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.
 Egg
Image 2
The motherless girls gaze
at the moon.
 Egg
Image 3
Same night as image 2
notice the same moon.
The mother has a new
baby snuggled to her
breast.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and
Black No. 2 (1872)
Portrait of Thomas
Carlyle.
 Aubrey Beardsley
How Sir Bedivere Cast the
Sword Excalibur into the
Water (1894)
Arthurian legend.