Charles Spencelayh and his paintings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Noakes, Aubrey

Diets & Weight Loss

Jupiter

Ben Marshall, 1768-1835

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

F. Lewis

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William Frith Extraordinary Victorian Painter

Arts & Photography

Hacker Art Books

<p>John William Waterhouse is among the most popular Victorian artists and many of his paintings, such as The Lady of Shallot, Hylas and the Nymphs and Ophelia, have become icons of femininity recognized the world over. With their compelling composition, glowing color and Impressionist-inflected technique, these paintings are admired for their beauty, yet at the same time they have the power to transport the viewer into a romantic world of myth and legend. Waterhouse’s depictions of female beauty reflect his age’s complex and ambivalent attitudes towards women, in which Victorian ideals of sentiment and duty commingled with less noble undercurrents of erotic desire and misogyny. <br><br>Aubrey Noakes sets out to discover the forgotten artist behind so much good work familiar to most of us now, chiefly in reproductions and in visits to provincial galleries, and he succeeds in this provocative and lively study.</p>

Waterhouse (Chaucer Library of Art)

Individual Artists

Chaucer Pr

Charles Spencelayh stands among the most important artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1865, he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1892, and was still exhibiting there in 1958, the year he died, at the age of ninety-two. He was regarded as something of a mystery man, even to his fellow artists, despite being held in great admiration by many influential collectors during his lifetime, including the royal family. His talent for portraying the common man with an engaging sense of sentiment combined with a meticulous attention for detail remains unsurpassed. For many years Aubrey Noakes was fascinated bySpencelayh’s work and his quiet affection for the artist’s style informs every page of this, the first study of Spencelayh. It is a vivid portrait based on lengthy conversations with the artist’s only son, with his stepson and executor and on a careful study of his personal papers. Noakes demolishes the myths that have grown up around Spencelayh - such as the statement that he never painted women - to create a uniquededication to his life and works.

Spencelayh: Charles Spencelayh (Chaucer Library of Art)

History & Criticism

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