“I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.”

James Abbott McNeill WhistlerNocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket

Piero Antonio Martini

Johann Zoffany

François Boucher

Canaletto

Benjamin West

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

ROMANTICISM

William Blake

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Théodore Géricault

Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

Death of Sardanapalus

Goya - Family of Charles IV

Francisco Goya

Third of May, 1808

Caspar David Friedrich

John Constable

Joseph Mallord William Turner

John Constable

Thomas Cole

Jean-Léon GérômeCafe House, Cairo (Casting

Bullets)

EARLYPHOTOGRAPHY

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Henry Peach Robinson

Oscar Rejlander

The Two Paths of Life

Julia Margaret CameronPortrait of Thomas Carlyle

Nadar

Sarah BernhardtBy Nadar

REALISM

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.

-Gustave Courbet

The Stone Breakers

Gustave CourbetA Burial At Ornans

Jean-François Millet

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Rosa Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur

Rosa Bonheur

Honoré Daumier

THE PRE-RAPHAELITEBROTHERHOOD

William Holman Hunt

John Everett Millais

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Ford Madox Brown - Work

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Édouard Manet

Hiroshige – Moon Pine at ueno