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GOOD NEIGHBOURS from kendrive ^Pro 2 days old

Here is an interesting domestic scene depicted by Waterhouse. He might have called it "Over the garden wall"! Good Neighbours John William Waterhouse ...

IN THE SPRING TIME, THE ONLY PRETTY RING TIME from kendrive ^Pro 4 days old

There is no story, myth or legend to accompany this pastoral scene by Waterhouse. Perhaps it is just from his imagination. A Song of Springtime John ...

ADONIS from kendrive ^Pro 5 days old

[ ... ] (Encyclopedia Brittanica) So perhaps in this painting Adonis is being awakened from death and not, as I originally interpreted it, from sleep.

TRISTAN AND ISOLDE from kendrive ^Pro 7 days old

Here is a brilliant painting by Waterhouse. Aren't the colours wonderful? Tristan and Isolde Sharing the Potion John William Waterhous 1916 The ...

ESTHER from kendrive ^Pro 8 days old

I am back to Waterhouse's portraits and this is of his wife, Esther, who was a talented artist in her own right. Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse Date: ...

THE ENCHANTED GARDEN from kendrive ^Pro 10 days old

[ ... ] before the painting was finished. Christopher Wood wrote, "The painting makes a fitting epitaph, for what is the work of Waterhouse if not an ...

APOLLO AND DAPHNE from kendrive ^Pro 11 days old

Yesterday Waterhouse presented us with a wood nymph and today he brings us another tree figure - Daphne. The interesting story behind the painting is ...

WOOD NYMPH from kendrive ^Pro 12 days old

One traditional symbolic meaning of the female nude is a Nature spirit. One of these, the Hamadryad, represents a stand of oaks. The Hamadryad is noble, ...

MY SWEET ROSE from kendrive ^Pro 17 days old

John William Waterhouse: My Sweet Rose (a.k.a 'The Soul of a Rose') - 1908 "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would ...

IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY from kendrive ^Pro 19 days old

After the Dance John William Waterhouse 1876 The party's over It's time to call it a day They've burst your pretty balloon And taken the moon away It's ...