Paintings (50 pages found in this category)


Consulting the Oracle

Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, showing a priestess using a mummified head, a tephra, as an oracle.

Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)

Undated oil on canvas painting by the English artist Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton.

Fairy painting

Genre of art and illustration featuring small imaginary human-like creatures with magical powers, often with wings.

Fancy picture

18th-century genre of painting, characteristically portraying an individual or group of individuals engaged in some everyday pursuit.

Genre painting

Paintings that depict scenes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives.

Girls Running, Walberswick Pier

Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).

Gouache

Opaque watercolour in which the pigments are bound together by glue.

Hadleigh Castle (painting)

Oil painting by the English artist John Constable, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829.

Hermia and Lysander

Watercolour painting created in 1870 by the English illustrator and miniature portrait painter John Simmons.

How They Met Themselves

Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.