London: Dover Publications, 1990. — 170 p. In the brief span of his life and career, Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98) galvanized public attention in 1890s London with his exotic renderings of subjects, which often projected the sensual and the grotesque. This splendid volume brings together the best of Beardsley's work — a rich selection ranging from illustrations for Laclos's Les...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 864 p. A founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti created a visionary body of paintings that defined a new art of sensuality and medieval revivalism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in...
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1906. — 461 p. Satirical pictures from 1890 to 1901 years from Punch. Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense...
Chris Beetles, 2018. —185 p. A high end gallery sales catalogue of drawings, cartoons and paintings by a number of artists for the purposes of illustrating books, newspapers etc. Good quality colour illustrations.
Chris Beetles, 2016. — 156 p. A high end gallery sales catalogue of drawings, cartoons and paintings by a number of artists for the purposes of illustrating books, newspapers etc. Good quality colour illustrations.
Chris Beetles, 2017. — 246 p. A high end gallery sales catalogue of drawings, cartoons and paintings by a number of artists for the purposes of illustrating books, newspapers etc. Good quality colour illustrations.
Chris Beetles, 2015. — 354 p. A high end gallery sales catalogue of drawings, cartoons and paintings by a number of artists for the purposes of illustrating books, newspapers etc. Good quality colour illustrations.
Chris Beetles, 2011. — 388 p. Fully illustrated exhibition catalogue including 614 full colour images, spanning 88 artists and containing a cross-index which refers back to all catalogues in the series since 1991. Contains significant biographical essays and introducing three new contemporary illustrators
Thames and Hudson, 1987. — 252 p. — (World of Art). In this book Frances Spalding reassesses the astonishing achievements of British artists from the Edwardians Ben Nicholson and Walter Sickert to the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; from the work of Paul Nash and David Jones between the wars to that of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Francis...
Chris Beetles, 2014. — 330 p. A high end gallery sales catalogue of drawings, cartoons and paintings by a number of artists for the purposes of illustrating books, newspapers etc. Good quality colour illustrations.
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 239 p. Graphic portrayals of the suffering Jesus Christ pervade late medieval English art, literature, drama, and theology. These images have been interpreted as signs of a new emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. To others they indicate a fascination with a terrifying God of vengeance and a morbid obsession with death. In The Grief of God,...
Susquehanna University Press, 2005. — 259 p. — ISBN: 1 1575910853; ISBN13: 978-1575910857. In Elizabethan England, dramatists and painters were both achieving the greatest degree of artistic excellence yet witnessed, but they were also in a state of transition, vying for social status and patronage, as well as struggling against religious reformers' accusations of idolatry and...
London: Conway Maritime Press/Naval Institute Press, 1986. — 136 p. Nicholas Pocock (2 March 1740 – 9 March 1821) was a British artist known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. In 1778, Pocock's employer, Richard Champion, became financially insolvent due to the effects of the American Revolutionary War on transatlantic trade. As a result,...
Park South Books, 1977. — 94 p. More than a century and a half after his death, William Blake (1757-1827) remains a remarkable and controversial figure. Equally gifted as poet and painter, he produced work as arresting for its beauty as for its strangeness. For some he is an inspiring genius, a source of creativity and insight. For others he is an unsettling eccentric. William...
Thames & Hudson, 1993. — 220 p.: ill.:177 illustrations, 24 in color. — (World of Art). The range of artistic production in the Victorian age included history painting; topographical landscapes of the Continent and the Middle East; Landseer's royal portraits and heroic animal pictures; Pre-Raphaelite painting with its combined naturalism and symbolism; Leighton's classical...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 244 p. Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living....
Delphi Classic. 2016. — 798 p. — ISBN: 9781786564931 The portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough was the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the eighteenth century. Credited as a founder of the British landscape school, Gainsborough sought to change the artistic tastes of his day, establishing an original and innovative approach to high art. Delphi’s...
Delphi Classic. 2015. — 739 p. Celebrated for his iconic depictions of the English countryside, particularly his beloved Stour valley, John Constable helped raise the status of landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume...
Delphi classic. 2012. — 863 p. Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (baptised 14 May 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one...
205 JPG. up to 1200x2000 Pixels Scottish painter Jack Vettriano born Jack Hoggan (born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best selling image in Britain. For his 21st birthday his girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and this is when he found his artistic talent. But his breakthrough was in 1988 when he felt ready...
New York: Time Ink., 1969. — 198 p. Joseph Mallord William Turner, was an English Romanticist landscape painter. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of Britishwatercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light"[2] and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism
Morristown USA: Time-Life Books Ink., 1969. — 200 p. Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes