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John Martin's watercolour illustrates a passage from John Bunyan’s 'The Pilgrims Progress,' here, Christian is alone in the flooded caverns of the valley of the shadow of death. This is one of two images by Martin which was engraved for Robert Southey’s 1830 edition of the story. https://t.co/fH3zxTF35l

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Wrestlers,' (1899) was Thomas Eakins’s last completed self portrait and final sporting picture. His cereer-long interest in human anatomy began he first started at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1862. https://t.co/ZNdQtCpBq6

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

Algernon Newton's work from 1942, shows Godmersham Park, Kent on a cloudy day. The house was built in 1732 for the landowner and MP Thomas May and is believed to be the inspiration for Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. https://t.co/LvHxKyGGUv

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

Gertrude Hermes' 'Undercurrents,' appeared in a 1939 reprint of Izaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler.' The book takes the form of narratives between Piscator and Venator as they travel through the valley of the River Lea with Piscator teaching Venator how to become an angler. https://t.co/3tZ7deeN2n

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Deux footballeurs.' (1921) The Great-grandson of Victor Hugo, Jean's works, by their format, type of figures and even colours, are strongly influenced by Picasso's neo-classical period of the 1920s as well as with the naïf style of the Douanier Rousseau. https://t.co/OAo5eY44AY

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Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Benares, Blue is the Sky.' In 1902 Mortimer Menpes was commissioned to cover the Delhi Durbar by the Pall Mall Gazette. After completing his assignment, he travelled extensively, here he depicts India's holiest Hindu city on the banks of the River Ganges. https://t.co/YBZhlKQVA2

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

Elin Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received an education in art, the 'painter sisters generation.' She studied sculpture with Auguste Rodin and painting under Gustave Courtois whose influence can be seen in this work of 1888. https://t.co/uajO0immu6

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Starry Night.' (c1924) Edvard Munch's mystical and mysterious scenes of night are dominated by either the moon, whose bright light illuminates the canvases or, as here, by the expressively painted deep blue sky, punctuated by distant stars and planets. https://t.co/EUneWSGQgu

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Westminster Sunset.' (1900) It was the art critic John Ruskin who encouraged Albert Goodwin to paint in watercolour, realising that it suited his talent better and that it was the ideal medium for the evanescent and poetic effects at which he excelled. https://t.co/PPDEejETmD

Richard Morris: art history in a Tweet

'Mother and Child,' made around the 1880, is part of Rodin's series of 'black drawings,' developed for a commission based on Dante's Inferno, the first part of his epic poem 'La Divina Commedia.' https://t.co/CpaTviwfdF