Genre painting
Paintings that depict scenes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives.
The Clique (art group)
Short-lived group of English artists active during the late 1830s, dissatisfied with the stuffy traditionalism of the Royal Academy.
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Painting by the English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), considered to be his masterpiece.
The Death of Cardinal Beaufort (1399–1447)
Oil painting by Joshua Reynolds, illustrating a scene from Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II.
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Oil painting by Henry Fuseli, illustrating a passage from John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.
Priestess of Delphi (painting)
Oil painting by John Collier (1850–1934), depicting a priestess at the Oracle of Delphi.
Hadleigh Castle (painting)
Oil painting by the English artist John Constable, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829.
A Mermaid
Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900, now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Consulting the Oracle
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, showing a priestess using a mummified head, a tephra, as an oracle.
Witches at their Incantations
Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646.