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I am Half-Sick of Shadows, said the Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, 1916. #johnwilliamwaterhouse #paintings #art #ladyofshalott #halfsickofshadows

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John William Waterhouse, 1893

John William Waterhouse "Decameron" 1916 (detail)

I am fairly certain that just about everyone reading this post has seen the Lady of Shalott at some point. On a calendar, poster, gift bag... it has been reproduced millions of times and is one of the key pieces of English art from the 19th Century. It is often held up as the painting for the Pre-Ra

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) - The Annunciation

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Chalk on paper Private collection of Dr. Dennis Lanigan

The Pre-Rapaelites hated Mannerism with a passion. Their four doctrines were the following: - to have genuine ideas to express; - to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; - to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, - to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. #romanticart #waterhouse #johnwilliamwaterhouse

Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece Details 5/10 Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896, John William Waterhouse

Carl Heinrich Bloch

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In the Garden of Proserpina, 1893 (oil on canvas) - Henry A. (Harry) Payne

John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens (details), 1891, oil on canvas, 100.6 × 202 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

John William Waterhouse [English Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1849-1917] Oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London

A Realm of Wonder on Twitter: "“...O, woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see!” ~ Shakespeare, Hamlet Ophelia • John William Waterhouse, 1910.… https://t.co/ZgIrTG0oZt"