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The Ghost of a Flea

Jan 26, 2019Eric CorbettPaintingFacebook 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 CorbettUncategorisedFacebook 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.

Gertrude Agnew

Jan 8, 2019Georgie DarcyEnglish, Female, SocialiteFacebook post, Not on Wikipedia

Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.

The Day Dream

Dec 17, 2018Georgie DarcyPaintingFacebook post

Oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which he considered to among the best of his work.

English Mechanic

Dec 15, 2018Eric CorbettAutomobile, KitFacebook post

UK’s first kit car, 1900.

Mandrake

Dec 10, 2018Eric CorbettMagic, Plant, SuperstitionFacebook post

One of 2500 species of plants belonging to the Solanaceae family. Its psychoactive effects have been known to physicians since ancient times.

Cailleach

Nov 28, 2018Eric CorbettLegend, Mythical creatureFacebook post

Ancient Celtic hag goddess who in her various guises shaped the land, controlled the forces of nature, and was responsible for the harsh nature of winter.

Athenodoros and the ghost

Nov 14, 2018Eric CorbettGhost storyFacebook post

Athenenodorus (c. 74 BCE – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher and the subject of the first recorded ghost story.

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

Allegory of Fortune
Allegory of Fortune, sometimes also named La Fortuna, is an oil painting on canvas that was created around 1658 or 1659 by the Italian baroque painter Salvator Rosa, which caused uproar when first exhibited publicly and almost got the painter jailed and excommunicated.

A Mermaid
Painting by John William Waterhouse, completed in 1900, now in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts.

A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration of an orrery.

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).

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

Circe
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.

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.

Cymon and Iphigenia (painting)
Undated oil on canvas painting by the English artist Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton.

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.

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

Fancy picture
18th-century genre of painting, characteristically portraying an individual or group of individuals engaged in some everyday pursuit.

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.

Genre painting
Paintings that depict scenes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives.

Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1864–1932)
Oil on canvas portrait of Lady Agnew by John Singer Sargent completed during 1892. Commissioned by her husband Sir Andrew Noel Agnew, 9th Baronet.

Girls Running, Walberswick Pier
Oil on canvas painting by the English impressionist artist Philip Wilson Steer (1860–1942).

Hadleigh Castle (painting)
Oil painting by the English artist John Constable, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829.

Hermia and Lysander
Watercolour painting created in 1870 by the English illustrator and miniature portrait painter John Simmons.

History painting
Artistic genre characterised by its depiction of a moment in a story from Greek or Roman mythology, or the Bible, in an elevated and morally edifying manner.

How They Met Themselves
Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in which a couple in medieval costume are confronted by their doubles.

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.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw painting
Redirected to Gertrude Vernon, Lady of Lochnaw (1864–1932).

Manchester Madonna
Unfinished tempera on panel painting by Michelangelo.

Mariamne
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse

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

Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting)
Oil on canvas portrait by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough, a close friend of the Linleys

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.

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.

Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball
Oil on canvas painting by the English artist William Etty, first exhibited in 1853.

Priestess of Delphi (painting)
Oil painting by John Collier (1850–1934), depicting a priestess at the Oracle of Delphi.

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 Alchymist
Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, first exhibited in 1771.

The Beguiling of Merlin
Painting by Edward Burne-Jones created between 1873 and 1877, depicting the Lady of the Lake sending Merlin into a deep sleep.

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 Burning Giraffe
Oil painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, created in 1937.

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 Country Choristers
1812 genre painting by the English artist Edward Bird, depicting "the essential God-fearing decency of the English working man and woman".

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 Day Dream
Oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which he considered to among the best of his work.

The Death of Cardinal Beaufort (1399–1447)
Oil painting by Joshua Reynolds, illustrating a scene from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II.

The Departure to London
1815 genre painting by the English artist Edward Bird.

The Enigma of Hitler
Painting by Salvador Dalí created in 1939, "celebrating" the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
Painting by the English artist Richard Dadd (1817–1886), considered to be his masterpiece.

The Incubus Leaving Two Young Women
Oil painting by the Swiss-born Romantic artist Henry Fuseli, c. 1794, like much of his work exploring the relationship between sex and fear.

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

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

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

The Misses Williams-Wynn
Redirected to Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball.

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
Oil painting by Henry Fuseli, illustrating a passage from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.

The Nightmare
Oil painting by Henry Fuseli, depicting an ape-like incubus crouching on a sleeping woman, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782.

The Orphan (painting)
1834 genre painting by the Scottish artist William Allan, a lament for the loss of his friend Sir Walter Scott.

The Piazza at Havanna
Painting by the French-born British artist Dominic Serres, depicting a scene from the British occupation of Havana in 1762.

The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
Oil on canvas painting by the Scottish artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton.

The Singing Butler
Painting by the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano (1951–2025), reproductions of which make it the best-selling art print in the UK.

The Siren
Painting by John William Waterhouse

The Victory of Faith (painting)
Painting by the Irish artist Saint George Hare, depicting two sleeping nude women, apparently Christian martyrs, sentenced to be devoured by beasts.

Victorian painting
Distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

Witches at their Incantations
Painting by the Italian Baroque artist Salvator Rosa, completed in about 1646.

Yard with Lunatics
Small oil-on-tinplate painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, produced between 1793 and 1794.

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