Tempera

Term applied to any paint in which the pigment is dissolved in water and mixed with an organic gum or glue.

Fairy painting

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

The Love Potion

Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.

A Balloon Site, Coventry

Oil on canvas painting by Laura Knight, portraying a group of people – mainly women – launching a barrage balloon.

Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs is a painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1897. It shows the Greek hero Hylas being enticed to his death into a pool of water by a group of nymphs.