Arts (138 pages found in this category)


Mary Roberts

English natural history author (1788–1864).

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

English nursery rhyme that may be about Queen Mary I.

Maurice Winnick

English musician and dance band leader of the British dance band era.

Monday’s Child

Nursery rhyme supposed to foretell a child's character or future from their day of birth.

Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting)

Oil on canvas portrait by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough, a close friend of the Linleys

Off the Dole

1935 British film starring George as an unemployed man forced to become a private detective when his dole money is stopped, because he has not been looking for work.

Ophelia

Series of three paintings by John William Waterhouse, reflecting his interpretation of Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's Hamlet

Penelope and the Suitors

Oil on canvas painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse, commissioned by the Aberdeen Art Gallery and completed in 1912.

Pierre Adolphe Valette

French Impressionist painter who taught at the Manchester School of Art from 1906 until 1920.

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Group of English artists formed in 1848 to counter what they saw as the corrupting influence of the late-Renaissance painter Raphael.