Manchester Madonna
Unfinished tempera on panel painting by Michelangelo.
Fairy painting
Genre of art and illustration featuring small imaginary human-like creatures with magical powers, often with wings.
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.
The Love Potion
Oil painting by the English artist Evelyn de Morgan, created in 1903.
Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).
The Misses Williams-Wynn
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Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball
Oil on canvas painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1853.
A Winter Scene with Skaters Near a Castle
Oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp (1585–1634).
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.