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Two boys fishing at dusk on a riverbank with a dog, a village and pink clouds in the background.

The Young Anglers

Edmund Bristow, 1845

Oil painting of a candlelit banquet with a crowned central figure, guests in period dress, gilded mirrors and a moonlit windo

The Life of Buckingham

Night painting of a warship on fire with smoke, small boats on dark water, and figures on a shore.

Ship on fire at night

Charles Brooking, 1756

Painting of a seaside bathing place with children and women in the surf, white bathing machines, and a chalk cliff.

The Bathing Place at Ramsgate

Benjamin West, 1788

Painting of Lambeth Palace gatehouse towers beside the Thames, with rowing boats, figures and a distant cityscape at dusk.

Lambeth Palace from the West

Daniel Turner, 1802

Dim studio with students gathered around a lamplit draped model on a platform, one man in red sketching.

Academy by Lamplight

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1770

Oil sketch of two horsemen in top hats galloping on a dusty road, with a carriage in the distance under cloudy skies.

A Scene on the Road in France

Charles Cooper Henderson, 1835

Painting of a brick church and a pyramid tomb on a green hill above a flat plain, with distant hills under a pale sky.

A View of the Church of S. Sabina and the Pyramid of Cestius, Rome

Charles Lock Eastlake, 1825

Oil still life of a bread loaf, cheese, butter dish, decanter, glass and knife on a white cloth against a dark background.

Still Life of Bread, Butter and Cheese

George Smith, 1754

Painting of a grieving man beside a seated woman in white holding out a dagger, with a classical bust behind them.

Paetus and Arria

Benjamin West, 1766

Painting of a sleeping woman in a dark dress seated in a dim room beside a window showing a night city view.

Home Dreams

Charles West Cope, 1869

Painting of a huge columned banquet hall with startled guests at a feast, a stormy sky with lightning, and a distant tower.

Belshazzar's Feast

John Martin, 1820

Painting of an armored knight with raised sword held back by a hooded woman, beside a seated old man in a cave of skeletons.

The Cave of Despair

Benjamin West, 1772

Three riders in red hunting coats and top hats on horseback, painted in loose brushwork against a muted landscape.

Studies of Riders in the Hunting Field

Benjamin Marshall, 1805

Reclining nude woman with a serpent coiled on her arm, against red drapery, in a 1674 painting by Benedetto Gennari II.

Cleopatra

Benedetto Gennari II, 1674

Painting of milkmaids and cows in a London park with onlookers and Westminster Abbey's tower in the distance.

Milkmaids in St. James's Park, Westminster Abbey Beyond

Benjamin West, 1801

X-radiograph of a self portrait by Daniel Stringer showing canvas texture and faint underlying figure shapes.

Self portrait

Daniel Stringer

Oil painting of a village wake with a dancing boy, a man in a red coat, a striped tent, and onlookers before a church spire.

Hob Selling Beer at the Wake

John Laguerre, 1725

Full-length painting of a woman in red and gold costume with a white dog, fruit basket and ruins behind her.

A Whole Length of a Lady of Petrella, in the Kingdom of Naples

Painting of mounted soldiers and spectators before the Horse Guards building with its clock tower under a cloudy sky.

Trooping the Colour

Bernhard Sickert, 1897

Painting of a lively village street with a dancing man, a woman in pink, a tavern, and a church spire behind.

Hob Continues Dancing in Spite of his Father

John Laguerre, 1725

Seated woman in red embroidered dress with green parasol, beside a barefoot girl holding a basket of shells by the sea.

A Whole Length of a Lady of Neturrio, a Sea Port in the Pope's Territories

Hazy riverside scene with moored boats, brick buildings with chimneys, and a winding channel reflecting a pale sky.

The Fishmarket

Bernhard Sickert, 1917

Painting of an outdoor brawl with men in 18th-century dress, a fallen man, a tent, and two women watching from a garden wall.

Hob's Defence

John Laguerre, 1725

Painting of a governess in black standing before a seated woman in red velvet with children playing in an elegant room.

The Governess

Emily Mary Osborn, 1860

Watercolor of a moorland with sheep, a mounted shepherd and dog under billowing clouds and rolling hills.

Claude Hayes, 1852-1922, Moorland with Sheep and Shepherd, undated

Claude Hayes, 1923

Figures beside a well with sheep and cattle, a cottage and a church spire in the distance, painted in warm earth tones.

Hob Taken Out of Ye Well

John Laguerre, 1720

Three-masted packet ship New York under full sail on choppy sea, with a rocky island on the horizon and gulls.

The Black Ball Line Packet Ship 'New York' off Ailsa Craig

William Clark, 1836

Painting of red-coated riders and hounds leaping a stone wall during a fox hunt across rolling English countryside.

The Berkeley Hunt, 1842: Full Cry

Francis Calcraft Turner, 1842

Oil portrait of two boys in 18th-century dress, one standing with a raised arm beside a green chair, one kneeling in a hat.

Portrait of Two Boys, probably Joseph and John Joseph Nollekens

Josef Frans Nollekens, 1745