KingArthur Art
Gallery
William Dyce(1806-1864)
At the
request of Prince Albert, Dyce painted 4 frescoes for Queene's Robing Room,
Westminister, to personify British virtues illustrated in Arthurian legend:
Religion, Generosity, Courtesy, Mercy.
Merci
(1848) shows Lancelot on his horse sparing the fallen Arthur. 36K
The Pre-Raphaelites:
The
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (or PRB) was a 19th century group of rebellious
young artists who, disillusioned with the artistic climate of their day,
sought to rediscover the purity of art by creating an entirely new artistic
style that drew upon the middle ages, the bible, classical mythology and
nature for inspiration, emulating the work of the great Italian artists
before Raphael (hence their name: pre-Raphaelite). The PRB only lasted
for five or so years, but it served to inspire many other painters such
as Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John William Waterhouse throughout the rest
of the 19th century and into the early 20th century. (www.artmagick.com)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti(1828-1882)
For
a biography of Rossetti, see Carol
Gerkin's Art Gallery.
The
Damsel of the Sanct Grail (1857)
117K
King
Arthur's Tomb (detail)
153K
(1854 watercolor, only 9"x14", showing Lancelot and Guenever meeting over
Arthur's corpse)
The Palace
of Art(1854
drawing for the Moxon edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King)
How
Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Grail, but Sir
Percival's Sister Died by the Way(1864
watercolor)
William Morris
Guenevere
or La Belle Iseult
(1854; Morris' wife-to-be was the model) 145K
Edward Burne-Jones
(1833-1898)
For a biography of Burne-Jones, see Carol
Gerkin's Art Gallery.
The
Beguiling of Merlin
(Burne-Jones painted 5 versions of Merlin and Nimue) 107K
Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon110K
William Holman Hunt
Various
studies of the Lady of Shallot tangled in her loom.
The
Lady of Shalott
The
Lady of Shalott(Engraving
for the Moxon edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King 1856-57)
An excellent
site on Hunt is The
Light of the World.
Sophie Anderson, French
(1823-1903)
Elaine,
or the Lily Maid of Astolat(1870)
Arthur Hughes (1823-1904)
Knight
of the Sun
Sir
Galahad
The
Lady of Shalott
William Waterhouse
The
Lady of Shallot (1888)
166K
One of the few paintings of the boat segment of Elaine's story which shows
her alive. Waterhouse's
sister Mary was the model.
"I
am half-sick of shadows," said the Lady of Shalott 33K
The
Lady of Shalott
(1894)
Sidney Meteyard (1868-1947)
"I
am half-sick of shadows," said the Lady of Shalott(1913)
14K
(1926 painting inspired by Keats' poem of the same name)
Frank Cowper (1877-1958)
Last
of the Pre-Raphaelites
The
Damsel of the Lake, Called Nimue the Enchantress(1924)
27K
Four
Queens Find Lancelot Sleeping
La
Belle Dame Sans Merci
James Archer
The
Death of Arthur (1823)
John Collier (1850-1934)
Guinivere's
Maying
Sir Frank Dicksee (1853-1928)
Le
Belle Dame Sans Merci
Edmund Blair Leighton
(1853-1922)
The
Accolade
A
Lady's Favor or God Speed
Stitching
the Standard
Briton Riviere (1840-1920)
Elaine-`The
Dead Steer'd by the Dumb Went Upward with the Flood', from 'Malory's Morte
d'Arthur'
John Spencer-Stanhope
Morgan
le Fay
John Atkinson Grimshaw
(1854-1906)
Elaine
Illustrators:
Gustave Dore (1832-1883)
Illustrated
4 poems for Tennyson's Idylls. Made 36 more drawings, which
were copied by engravers and later published all together. Camelot
Project has them all.
The
Finding of Arthur
Elaine
Floats Down to Camelot on a Barge
Lancelot's
Remorse
The
King's Farewell
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
Created
500 black & white drawings for J. M. Dent's Le Morte D'Arthur, published
1893-94. Art Nouveau style. Victorians were not enthusiastic
about his tendency to portray men as passive, androgynous, unheroic beings
often reclining, asleep, or naked, while his women and feys were more active.
How
Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water
185K
How
Four Queens Found Lancelot Sleeping
The
Lady of the Lake Telleth Arthur of the Sword Excalibur
How
Sir Lancelot Was Known by Dame Elaine
Julia Margaret Cameron
Tennyson
asked her to illustrate his Idylls. Her photographs used top &
side lighting, long exposure, and the wet collodion development process
to create an otherworldly aura of the magical past. Published in
1874.
The
Corpse of Elaine in the Palace of King Arthur
Elaine
in the Barge
Elaine
the Lily Maid of Astalot
King
Arthur
King
Arthur Lying in a Barge
The
Little Novice and the Queen
Vivien
and Merlin
Vivien
and Merlin
16K
N. C. Wyeth
Illustrated
Sidney Lanier's The Boy's King Arthur, 1917.
Inside
Cover
17K
And
when they came to the sword that the hand held, King Arthur took it up.35K
He
rode his way with the Queen unto Joyous Gard
Then
the king ran towards Sir Mordred, crying, "Traitor, now is thy death day
come."
Then
Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed.
Most of the images
on this page were found in the art collections listed below. Each
of these sites also has bibliographies and many more images.
Artmagick's Pre-Raphaelite Collection
Excellent of Pre-Raphaelite
paintings with biographies of the artists and discussions of some individual
paintings.
http://www.artmagick.com
Carol Gerten's Art Gallery
Very large gallery
with alphabetical artist index. Outstanding quality.
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/
Camelot Project: Artist's Menu
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
Celtic Twilight
Large collection,
easily accessible, with most images sized to fit inside screen
http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com
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