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Walter Richard Sickert

On May 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, English, may 31

Walter Richard Sickert, English painter, May 31, 1860 – January 22, 1942

Sickert, 1911

The Acting Manager or Rehearsal: The End of the Act, circa 1885-1886 Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in // Private Collection

Miss Earhart’s Arrival, 1932 Oil paint on canvas, 28.2 x 74 in // Tate Gallery, London

Walter Richard Sickert, The Cafe Suisse, or Cafe des Arcades, Dieppe Oil on canvas, 21 x 15 in Leeds Museum, UK

The Cafe Suisse, or Cafe des Arcades, Dieppe, 1914 Oil on canvas, 21 x 15 in // Leeds Museum, UK

Walter Richard Sickert, A Red Sky at Night, 1896 Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in Southampton City Art Gallery

A Red Sky at Night, 1896 Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in // Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

The Open Window, 1939 Oil on canvas, 34 x 26 in // Leeds Art Gallery, UK

The Brighton Pierrots, 1915 Oil on canvas, 25.2 x 30.2 in // Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Pimlico, London, c.1937 Oil on canvas, 24 x 29 in // Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Scotland

Thomas Gainsborough

On May 14, 2025 - 18th Century, English, may 14

Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788

Self-portrait, circa 1758-1759 Oil on canvas, 30 in x 25 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Margaret Gainsborough, 1778 Oil on canvas, 30.2 × 25.1 in // Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Road from Market, between 1767 and 1768 Oil on canvas, 47.75 in x 67 in // Toledo Museum of Art

Thomas Gainsborough, Cattle Watering by a Stream Watercolor and gouache with black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, 11.61 in x 14.25 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Cattle Watering by a Stream Watercolor and gouache with black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, 11.61 in x 14.25 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Madame Lebrun, 1780 Oil on canvas, 5 in x 4.03 in // Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Mary Little, Later Lady Carr, circa 1763 Oil on canvas, 50 in x 40 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven,Connecticut

Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Margaret Burr, Mrs Thomas Gainsborough, early 1770s Pastel over pencil heightened with white, varnished, laid paper, 9.40 in x 7.48 in Private collection

Portrait of Margaret Burr, Mrs Thomas Gainsborough, early 1770s Pastel over pencil heightened with white, varnished, laid paper, 9.40 in x 7.48 in // Private collection

The Market Cart, 1786-1787 Oil on canvas, 72.4 in x 60.2 in // Tate Britain, London

Thomas Gainsborough, Landscape with Stream and Weir, between 1750 and 1753 Oil on canvas, 31.49 in x 37.24 in Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Landscape with Stream and Weir, between 1750 and 1753 Oil on canvas, 31.49 in x 37.24 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Thomas Gainsborough, #ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, May 14, 1727 (baptised) – August 2, 1788 Landscape in Suffolk, between circa 1746 and circa 1750 Oil on canvas, 25.98 in x 37.40 in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Landscape in Suffolk, between circa 1746 and circa 1750 Oil on canvas, 25.98 in x 37.40 in Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The lawyer Joshua Grigby III, circa 1760/1765 Oil on canvas, 50.1 in x 40.2 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Ignatius Sancho, 1768 Oil on canvas, 29 in x 24.4 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

David Garrick, 1770 Oil on canvas, 29.7 in x 24.8 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Paul Nash

On May 11, 2025 - 20th Century, English, may 11

Paul Nash, British painter May 11, 1889 – July 11, 1946

Self-Portrait, 1923 Woodcut

Wire, 1918-1919 Watercolour, chalk, and ink on paper, 17.2 x 25 in // Imperial War Museum, London

The Ypres Salient at Night, 1918 Oil on panel, 28.1 x 36.2 in // Imperial War Museum, London

The Menin Road, 1919 Oil on canvas, 71.9 in x 10.4 ft // Imperial War Museum, London

We are Making a New World, 1918 Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 in // Imperial War Museum, London

Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917, 1918 Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in // Imperial War Museum, London

David Cox Senior

On April 29, 2025 - 19th Century, april 29, English

David Cox Senior, English artist, 29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859

Shrewsbury Battlefield,1850 Watercolor

Rhyl Sands, circa 1854 Oil on canvas, 24.8 in x 17.8 in // Tate Britain, London

A Train on a Viaduct, unknown date Crayon and watercolor on paper, 3.3 x 4.5 in // Tate Britain, London

Travellers on a Path, brush and brown wash, over graphite

David Cox Senior, Windmill Watercolour on board, 9 x 6.25 Tate Britain, London

Windmill Watercolour on board, 9 x 6.25 in // Tate Britain, London

Calais: Hôtel de Guise, 1829 or 1832 Watercolour and graphite on paper // Tate Gallery, London

Naval Pensioner Watercolour and graphite on paper Tate, London

The Great Hall, Haddon Hall, 19th Century Watercolour over pencil on paper Birmingham Museums, United Kingdom

David Cox Senior, Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen, 1829 Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, 10 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Place St. Barthélemy, Rouen, 1829 Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper, 10 3/8 x 8 1/2 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

David Cox, Senior, The Old Bridge at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, 1809

The Old Bridge at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, 1809 Watercolor

Junction of the Severn and the Wye with a Rainbow, 1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner

On April 17, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, april 23, English

Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter, April 23, 1775–December 19, 1851

Daguerrotype of JMW Turner, 1847

Death on a Pale Horse (?) c.1825–30 Oil paint on canvas, 23.5 x 29.8 in // Tate Gallery, London

San Giorgio Maggiore in the Morning, 1819 Watercolor on paper, 11 x 8.7 in // British Museum, London

Fishermen at Sea, 1796 Oil on canvas, 36 in x 48.1 in // Tate Britain, London

Peace – Burial at Sea,1842 Oil on canvas, 34 in × 34.1 in // Tate Britain, London

The Slave Ship, 1840 Oil on canvas, 35.7 in x 48.2 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kenilworth Castle Date: c.1830 Watercolour, bodycolour and graphite on paper Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Saltash with the Water Ferry, Cornwall, 1811 Oil on canvas, 35.3 in x 47.5 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Calais Pier, 1803 Oil on canvas, 67.7 in x 94.4 in // National Gallery, London

Fisherman's Cottage, Dover, circa 1790 Watercolor, 5.23 in x 7.87 in // Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Norham Castle, Sunrise c.1845 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01981

Eadweard Muybridge

On April 9, 2025 - 19th Century, American, april 9, English

Eadweard Muybridge, British-born American Photographer, April 9, 1830 – May 8, 1904

Eadweard Muybridge

Pi-Wi-Ack (Shower of Stars), Vernal Fall, 400 Feet, Valley of Yosemite, 1872 Albumen print, 17 in x 12.50 in // San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Boys Playing Leapfrog, 1883–86, printed 1887 Collotype Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Horse in Motion, 1878

Dora Carrington

On March 29, 2025 - 20th Century, English, march 29

Dora de Houghton Carrington, known generally as Carrington, English painter, 29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932

Dora Carrington - Self Portrait, 1913

Dora Carrington, 1917, (photographer: Lady Ottoline Morrell) National Portrait Gallery, London

Farm at Watendlath, 1921 Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 26 in / Tate Gallery, London

Spanish Landscape with Mountains, c.1924 Oil paint on canvas, 22 x 26 / Tate Gallery, London

Female Figure Standing, 1913 University College London Art Museum.

Lytton Strachey Reading, 1916 Oil on panel, 20 x 24 / National Portrait Gallery, London

Dora Carrington, Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

E. M. Forster, 1920 Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in / National Portrait Gallery, London

Female Figure Lying on Her Back, 1912 Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in / UCL Art Museum, London

Jane Maria Grant, Lady Strachey, 1920 Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

John Constable

On March 24, 2025 - 19th Century, English, june 11

John Constable, British painter, June 11, 1776-March 31, 1837

Self-portrait (1806)

Brighton Beach with Colliers, 1824 Oil on canvas, 57 x 10 in Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Seascape Study with Rain Cloud (Rainstorm over the Sea), between 1824 and 1828 Oil on paper, 8.7 in x 12.2 in // Royal Academy of Arts, London

Stour Valley and Dedham Church, circa 1815 Oil on canvas, 21.8 in x 30.6 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Bridges Family, 1804 Oil on canvas, 72.3 in x 53.5 in Tate Gallery, London

Maria Bicknell, Mrs John Constable, 1816 Oil on canvas, 9.8 in x 12 in // Tate Gallery, London

The Lock, 1824 Oil on canvas, 55.9 in x 47.5 in // Private Collection

Graham Sutherland

On March 23, 2025 - 20th Century, august 24, English

Graham Sutherland, British painter, August 24, 1903 – February 17, 1980

Graham Sutherland

Green Tree Form: Interior of Woods, 1940 Oil paint on canvas, 31 x 42 in Tate Gallery, London

Graham Sutherland, 4 The Snake, Part of The Bestiary or the Procession of Orpheus, 1978–9 Etching and aquatint on paper, 19.3 x 14.25 in Tate Gallery, London

4. The Snake, Part of The Bestiary or the Procession of Orpheus, 1978–9 Etching and aquatint on paper, 19.3 x 14.25 in // Tate Gallery, London

Sir Thomas Lawrence

On March 18, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, English, pantheon

Sir Thomas Lawrence, English painter, 13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830

Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence P.R.A

Portrait of James Boswell Ink on paper, 5 x 4 in Tate Gallery, London

Portrait of James Watt, circa 1812 Oil on canvas, 56 in x 44 in // Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Lady Selina Caroline Meade, later Countess Clam-Martinic, April 1819 Oil on canvas, 29.9 in x 24.4 in Private collection

Portrait of Lady Selina Caroline Meade, later Countess Clam-Martinic, April 1819 Oil on canvas, 29.9 in x 24.4 in // Private collection

Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon, early 1790s Oil on canvas, 30.2 in x 25.1 in // Unidentified location

Sarah Trimmer, circa 1790 Oil on canvas, 30 in x 25 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, Lady Acland with her Two Sons, 1814 Oil on canvas, 60 in x 45.9 in // National Trust, UK

Philadelphia Hannah, 1st Viscountess Cremorne, exhibited 1789 Oil paint on canvas, 95 × 58.2 in // Tate Gallery, London

Mirza Abu'l Hassan Khan, 1810 Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 1/4 in // Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

King William IV as the Duke of Clarence, between 1790 and 1795 Oil on canvas, 49.4 in x 39.4 in // National Trust, UK

Princess Lieven, circa 1820 Oil on canvas, 18.3 in x 15.3 in // Tate Britain, London

Richard Payne Knight, 1794 Oil on canvas, 50 in x 39.9 in // Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

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