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Circe

Mar 22, 2019Georgie DarcyJohn William Waterhouse, PaintingFacebook post

Circe is the title given to two oil on canvas sketches by the English artist John William Waterhouse; he worked on both during the final years of his career from 1911 to 1914.

The Magic Circle

Mar 21, 2019Eric CorbettJohn William Waterhouse, Painting, Pre-RaphaeliteFacebook post

Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, one of his earliest depictions of a classical sorceress.

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses

Mar 1, 2019Eric CorbettJohn William Waterhouse, Painting, Pre-RaphaeliteFacebook post

Oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse, created in 1891.

Humpty Dumpty

Feb 20, 2019Eric CorbettNursery rhymeFacebook post

One of the best-known English nursery rhymes, about an egg, and almost certainly intended as a riddle.

Hanged, drawn and quartered

Feb 13, 2019Eric CorbettCapital punishmentFacebook post

Statutory penalty in England from 1352 for men convicted of high treason, not repealed until 1870.

Statute of Silence 1581

Jan 27, 2019Eric CorbettEnglish, StatuteFacebook post, Not on Wikipedia

Act of Parliament introducing a series of increasingly gruesome punishments for speaking or publishing anything that Queen Elizabeth I did not wish to hear.

The Ghost of a Flea

Jan 26, 2019Eric CorbettPainting, William BlakeFacebook post

One of William Blake’s strangest and most bizarre works.

Witch-Finding

Jan 23, 2019Georgie DarcyWitchcraftFacebook post, Not on Wikipedia

Methods used to identify witches.

Cotswold Olimpick Games

Jan 19, 2019Eric CorbettSports eventFacebook post

The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports held on the Friday after Spring Bank Holiday near Chipping Campden, in the Cotswolds of England.

Roger Hampson

Jan 14, 2019Daisy GraceEnglish, Male, PainterFacebook post

Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.

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25 suggestions for "john-william-waterhouse+painting"
A Mermaid
Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900, now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Boreas
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse created in 1903, depicting the Greek god of the north wind.

Circe Invidiosa
Painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1892, his second depiction of the Greek mythological character Circe.

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
Oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse, created in 1891.

Cleopatra (painting)
Painting by John William Waterhouse.

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

Destiny (painting)
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), his contribution to the Artists' War Fund in support of British troops fighting in the Boer War.

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1908)
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), the first of two paintings he produced with the same title.

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1909)
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), the second of two paintings he produced with the same title.

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.

Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Waterhouse)
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a story in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron.

Mariamne
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, the largest art work he ever produced.

Mariana in the South
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917).

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

Pandora (painting)
Painting by John William Waterhouse.

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.

Psyche Entering Cupid’s Garden
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), depicting Psyche attempting to catch a glimpse of her secretive lover.

Sleep and his Half-Brother Death
Oil on canvas painting completed by John William Waterhouse in 1874

The Bouquet
Painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), one of his series of "flower women" created between 1908 and 1914.

The Crystal Ball
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1902

The Danaides
Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1906.

The Enchanted Garden
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse depicting a story in Boccaccio's Decameron.

The Lady of Shalott
Oil painting by English artist John William Waterhouse; the first in his trilogy featuring The Lady of Shalott

The Magic Circle
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse, one of his earliest depictions of a classical sorceress.

The Siren
Painting by John William Waterhouse.

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