Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

‘Hera’ by Eduard Niczky (1850-1919). The painting - which depicts the Greek queen of the gods in golden diadem and yellow robe - is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commis...

‘Stone Walls do not a Prison Make’ by Henry Nelson O’Neil ARA (1817-1880). The painting – which depicts one of the most popular Romantic figures of the 19th century, Mary Queen of Scots – is signed with monogram by the artist and dated 1869. Dressed in her familiar vêtements de deuil Mary Stuart is pictured during her final days of captivity at Fotheringhay Castle. On the table before her is a bible, a sprig of heather, and the wild rose she is said to have introduced to Scotland; rosa spinosissima is an ancient variety famous for its beauty and ability to survive in the poorest conditions. Mary Stuart was beheaded on the orders of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I on February 8th, 1587. With his friends William Powell Frith, Richard Dadd, John Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward...

‘Hera’ by Eduard Niczky (1850-1919). The painting - which depicts the Greek queen of the gods in golden diadem and yellow robe - is signed by the artist and hangs in a newly commis...

‘Stone Walls do not a Prison Make’ by Henry Nelson O’Neil ARA (1817-1880). The painting – which depicts one of the most popular Romantic figures of the 19th century, Mary Queen of Scots – is signed with monogram by the artist and dated 1869. Dressed in her familiar vêtements de deuil Mary Stuart is pictured during her final days of captivity at Fotheringhay Castle. On the table before her is a bible, a sprig of heather, and the wild rose she is said to have introduced to Scotland; rosa spinosissima is an ancient variety famous for its beauty and ability to survive in the poorest conditions. Mary Stuart was beheaded on the orders of her cousin Queen Elizabeth I on February 8th, 1587. With his friends William Powell Frith, Richard Dadd, John Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward, and Augustus Egg...

19th century Pre-Raphaelite painting of a Grecian beauty. Finely painted oil on canvas. British/American. In a custom hand made gilt frame. Unsigned. Stretcher inscribed with the dat...

Up for sale is this detailed and tentative portrait of an elegant woman in a common room or 'parlor'. By a famous English Pre-Raphaelite artist. Barked Frederick Lowcock. The woman can be seen standing before beautifully decorated interior. Some of the focuses in this painting is the stained glass window, a tall marble statue of a woman, exotic palm leaves and plants, paintings, easels, and antique furniture, a . By placing the objects in their proper places, Lowcock gave the observer a better understanding of who was being depicted in his portraits. The Royal Academy (1878–1904), Suffolk Street (1880–1892), and Thomas McLean's gallery (1892) all hosted Lowcock exhibitions. A number of biographical dictionaries, notably Benezit and Wood's Dictionary of Victorian Painters, which features an image of his work, mention Lowcock as an artist. The abbreviation CF Lowcock RBA, which stands for Royal Society of British Artists, is sometimes used to refer to Charles Frederick Lowcock. Pre-Raphaelite Woman in Study Sight size 10x18.5 inches With frame 20x29 inches Oil on Panel With Gilded Frame Signed lower left Lechertier...

This romantic 19th century idealised Pre Raphaelite portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Robert Fowler. Painted circa 1890, the composition is a full length profile of ...

English Pre-Raphaelite artist from the late 19th century the work is slightly sketchy in appearance suggesting it was possibly an unfinished work or preparatory painting in advance o...

‘The Goddess Flora’ by Ralph Peacock (1868-1946). The painting – which depicts the Roman Goddess of Youth, and Springtime – is signed by the artist and features one of his favourite models, the English society beauty, Edith Brignall. It is one of three portraits of her painted by Peacock in the summer of 1897, the two others being in the collection of Tate Britain. The goddess Flora was a popular figure with the Pre-Raphaelite movement and also featured in paintings by both John William Waterhouse and Evelyn de Morgan. Academy Fine Paintings only offers artwork for sale in the finest condition it can be for its age, having been professionally cleaned, conserved, and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. Ralph Peacock entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1887 where he won a gold medal for figure painting, and (perhaps more surprisingly) the Creswick Prize for landscape painting. Whilst still at the Academy, Peacock was widely considered to be the most gifted English painter of his generation and the heir to the mantel of Leighton, Dicksee, and William Holman Hunt whose portrait he would go on to paint in 1902. An immensely popular figural painter, Peacock was much in demand in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain and painted many superb society portraits of young English society beauties. Of all his many illustrious patrons and sitters probably the most famous was US President Herbert Hoover, the two becoming life-long friends. Peacock also achieved great success internationally, winning a gold medal in Vienna in 1898 and another in Paris at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Between 1888 and 1934 Ralph Peacock exhibited 94 paintings at the Royal Academy and numerous others at the Royal Society of British Artists, and the Grosvenor Gallery. Today, paintings by Peacock are to be found in the collections of Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Dimensions: (framed) 79cm x 69½cm (31” x 27½”) Dimensions: (canvas only) 61cm x 50½cm (24” x 20”) Medium: Oil on canvas. Provenance: Private collection of Colonel Sir James Reynolds...

Thomas Francis Dicksee 1819-1895 British Ophelia Initialed and dated "TFD 1865" (center right) Oil on canvas There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. — Ophelia, Act IV, Scene 5, Hamlet This extraordinary oil by Thomas Francis Dicksee reflects the highly detailed compositions, richly hued palettes and literary symbolism championed by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Reminiscent of the paintings of Sir John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt...

‘The Changer of Hearts’ by Philip Hermogenes Calderon R.A. (1833-1898). A fine 19th century three quarter length portrait of a Vestal Virgin of the Temple of Venus by the important Royal Academician Philip Hermogenes Calderon. The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1887, and hangs in its original gold leaf exhibition frame. As with all of the original antique oil paintings we sell it is offered in excellent condition, having just been professionally cleaned, restored and re-varnished. Clients should also note that tracked and signed for international shipping is complimentary. “The changer of hearts" was an epithet of the Roman goddess Venus, alluding to her ability to change hearts from lust to chastity. Having studied in London and Paris, Philip Calderon began exhibiting historical and literary pictures and portraiture at the Royal Academy in 1853. A friend and contemporary of William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882) and John Everett Millais (1829-1896) his style was initially Pre Raphaelite yet in subject was initially closer to the artists of The Clique such as William Powell Frith (1819-1909) and Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-880) and later to the classical themes of the Olympians Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). Calderon was elected an ARA in 1864 and a full Academician three years later, aged just 34. In the same year he became the first British artist to be awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition. Calderon was the leader of the St John's Wood Clique which included (several of the most important painters of historical subject pictures and academic portraiture of the 1860s and 70s) John Evan Hodgson RA, George Dunlop Leslie RA, Henry Stacy Marks...

This beautiful and captivating portrait oil painting is by British artist Gerald Edward Wellesley. The portrait dates to the Victorian period, circa 1890 and depicts a bold British p...