EDWIN LANDSEER 1802-73

No.18

The Arab Tent (1866)

Landseer was an English painter and sculptor, famous for his paintings of animals - especially horses, dogs and stags. However, his best known works are the lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square.

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WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON 1832-1910

No.17

Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon (c.1880)

This painting shows Napoleon on board the vessel taking him to St Helena, where he would remain, an exile, until his death in 1821. The deposed Emperor stands on the deck, isolated from the group of officers who watch him as he looks out to sea, undoubtedly thinking about his future.

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ARTHUR HUGHES 1832-1915

No.16

Sunday

Arthur Hughes was an English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was responsible for many of the illustrations in George MacDonald's books and also produced numerous illustrations for Norman MacLeod's monthly magazine, Good Words.

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WILLIAM POWELL FRITH 1819-09

No.15

The Railway Station

This huge 1862 oil painting measuring 116.7cm x 256.4 cm. depicts Paddington Railway Station in London. Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in Victorian times. He has been described as the "greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth."

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VALENTINE CAMERON PRINSEP 1838-1904

No.14

Cinderella (c.1880)

Born in Calcutta, "Val" Princep was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school. In 1877, he went to India and painted a huge picture of the Delhi Durbar which he exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy. It was presented to Queen Victoria and afterwards hung at Buckingham Palace. 

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CHARLES PARSONS KNIGHT 1829-97
No.12

High Summer on the Coast

Knight was born in Bristol, the fifth son of the Rev. Canon Knight, rector of Saint Michael's. He was educated by his father, who was a scholar and a friend of the artists and literary men of Bristol. 

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ROBERT BRAITHWAITE MARTINEAU 1826-69
No.12

The Last Day in the Old Home (1862)

This is the artist's most famous painting. "The Last Day in the Old Home" shows the feckless squire after gambling away his family's inheritance. The man portrayed is Colonel John Leslie Toke (1839–1911) who was a friend of Martineau and was painted at his country home Godinton House in Ashford, Kent. In an odd way life came to imitate art, for J. L. Toke inherited the house in 1866 but lost it after four hundred years of the Toke family living there.

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