English Mythology

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The Garden of Hesperides by Frederic Leightonc. 1892oil on canvasLady Lever Art Gallery

A Sleeping Bacchus by Richard Earlom (1780)

Sisyphus, Edward Burne-Jones, ca. 1870

Arthur Hacker (1858-1919), ‘Persephone’, Date Unknown

The Death of King Arthur, James Archer, 1860

Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874

Psyche Opening the Golden Box, John William Waterhouse, 1904

The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1766

Tecmessa and Eurysaces, Henry Fuseli, between 1800 and 1810

Saint George and the Dragon (I assume), as illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist &

Orpheus and Eurydice, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904)

The Birth of Venus, Henry Courtney Selous, 1852

Captive Andromache, Frederic Leighton, ca. 1886-88

Phosphorus and Hesperus by Evelyn de Morgan1883The De Morgan Centre

Frank Dicksee (Francis Bernard Dicksee) (1853–1928, Engand)Medievalist paintingsFrank Dicksee was a

art-is-art-is-art:Clytie, Frederick Leighton

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), ‘The Rhine’s Fair Children…’,   “The Rhin

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939),  'Rhine Maidens’,  ’‘The Rhinegold & the Twilight

Perseus on Pegasus Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda, Lord Leighton, 1895-96

A bugbear is a boogeyman from English folklore. Often said to resemble a monstrous bear, it is said

Una Among the Fauns and Wood Nymphs by William Edward Frost (1847)

The Wood Nymph by Charles Haslewood Shannonoil on canvasUsher Gallery 

John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917)A Mermaid, a great Victorian fantasy work from an English paint

The Naiad or Hylas and the Nymph by John William Waterhouse1893oil on canvasprivate collection

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