Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Nationality - American

Lydia at the Tapestry Loom

c.1881

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Claude Lorrain
1600-82
Nationality - French

Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

1648

Oil on Canvas

149.1 cm x 196.7 cm

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Francisco de Zurbaran

1598-1664
Nationality - Spanish

Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose

1633

Oil on Canvas

60 cm x 107 cm

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John William Waterhouse

1849-1917

Nationality - English

The Lady of Shalott

1888

Oil on Canvas

153 cm x 200 cm

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Paolo Veronese
1528-88
Nationality - Italian

Venus with a Mirror

c.1585

Oil on Canvas

163 cm x 121 cm

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Marie Spartali Stillman
1844-1927
Nationality - British of Greek descent

The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo

1889

Watercolour and Bodycolour on Paper

72 cm x 103 cm

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
1617-82
Nationality - Spanish

Young Man with a Basket of Fruit

(Personification of Summer)

c.1640-50

Oil on Canvas

99 cm x 79 cm

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Richard Wilson
1714-82
Nationality - Welsh

Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris

1774

Oil on Canvas

511 mm x 730 mm

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Paul Delaroche
1797-1856
Nationality - French

King Edward V and the Duke of York

in the Tower of London

1831

Oil on Canvas

181 cm x 215 cm

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Frank Weston Benson
1862-1951

Nationality - American

Eleanor

1907

Oil on Canvas

64.1 cm x 76.8 cm

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828-82
Nationality - British

Pia de' Tolomei

between 1868 and 1880

Oil on Canvas

104.7 cm x 120.6 cm

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Vincent van Gogh

1853-90

Nationality - Dutch

Interior of a Restaurant

1887

Oil on Canvas

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Edgar Degas
1834-1917
Nationality - French

A Woman seated beside a Vase of Flowers

(Madame Paul Valpinçon)

1865

Oil on Canvas

73.7 cm x 92.7cm

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Cecilia Beaux
1855-1942
Nationality - American

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and daughter Ethel

1902

Oil on Canvas

113 cm x 80 cm

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Valentine Cameron Princep
1838-1904
Nationality - British

"At the First Touch of Winter, Summer fades away"

1897

Oil on Canvas

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David Teniers the Younger

1610-90

Nationality - Flemish

Landscape with Peasants playing Bowls outside an Inn

c.1660

Oil on Canvas

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
1526/1530-69
Nationality - Dutch

Dutch Proverbs

1559

Oil on Oak Wood

117 cm x 163 cm

 This painting is unusual; it’s said to contain illustrations of 16th century sayings and idioms, and the suggestion has been made that 100 examples are included.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Nationality - French

The Doge's Palace, Venice

1881

Oil on Canvas

54.5.cm x 65.7 cm

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Marie Bashkirtseff
1858-84
Nationality - Russian

In the Studio

1881

Oil on Canvas

154 cm x188 cm

The artist is the central figure seated in the foreground

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Paulus Potter
1625-54
Nationality - Dutch

A Husbandman with his Herd

1648

Oil on Oak

50 cm x 75 cm

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David Hockney
b.1937
Nationality - British

Portrait of an Artist

(Pool with Two Figures)

1972

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John Melhuish Strudwick
1849-1937
Nationality - British

In the Golden Days

1907

Oil on Canvas

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
Nationality - French

Landscape at Beaulieu

1899

Oil on Canvas

65.3 cm x 81.5 cm

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John Constable

1776-1837
Nationality - British

Yarmouth Pier

1822

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Richard Ansdell
1815-85
Nationality - British

The New Litter

Oil on Canvas
71 cm x 91.5 cm

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Samuel Peploe
1871-1935
Nationality - Scottish

Interior with Japanese Print

c.1910

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David Johnson
1827-1908
Nationality - American

Eagle Cliff

1864

Oil on Canvas

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Gustave Caillebotte
1848-94
Nationality - French

Le jardin du Petit Gennevilliers en hiver 

1894

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Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1660
Nationality - Flemish

Landscape with the Ruins of Mount Palatine

c.1608

Oil on Panel

76 cm x 107 cm

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Jacobo Tintoretto
1518-94
Nationality - Italian

Women Playing Music

2nd half of 16th Cent.

Oil on Canvas

142 cm x 214 cm

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Norah Neilson Gray
1882 - 1931
Nationality - Scottish

Self Portrait

1918

Oil on Canvas

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Arthur Hughes
1832-1915
Nationality - English

A Music Party

1864

Oil on Canvas

58 cm x 76 cm

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Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
Nationality - American-born French

The Reader

1877

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Charles Joshua Chaplin
1825-91
Nationality - French

The Game of Lotto

1865

Oil on Canvas

116 cm x 97 cm

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Lea von Littrow
1860-1914
Nationality - Austrian

Sea and a Rocky Shore

Oil on Canvas

80cm x 160 cm

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Anthony van Dyck
1599-1641
Nationality - Flemish

Charles I in three positions

1635-6

Oil on Canvas

85 cm x 100 cm

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John Everett Millais
1829-96
Nationality - British

The Martyr of the Solway

c.1871

Margaret Wilson was a young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland. She was executed by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII (James II of England) as head of the church. She died along with Margaret McLachlan.

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Frank Dicksee
1853-1928
Nationality - British

An Offering

Oil on Canvas

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Artist not known

Classical Landscape with Mountains

c.1720-40

Oil on Canvas

36 cm x 46 cm

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Anna Ancher
1859-1935
Nationality - Danish

Room with Light Blue Curtains and Clematis

1913

Oil on Canvas

64.2 cm x 55 cm

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Ford Madox Brown
1821-93
Nationality - French-born British

The Last of England

1855

Oil on panel

82 cm x 75 cm

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Hamilton Hamilton
1847-1928
Nationality - American

Lil'l Southern Belles

1894

Oil on Canvas

81.2 cm x 91.4 cm

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William Frederick Yeames
1835-1918
Nationality - British

And when did you last see your Father?

1878

Oil on Canvas

131 cm x 251.5 cm

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Charles Brooking
1723-59
Nationality - English

Ship on Fire at Night

c.1756

Oil on Canvas

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Georges de la Tour
1593-1652
Nationality - French

The Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

1640-45

Oil on Canvas

128 cm x 94 cm

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Henri Rousseau
1844-1910
Nationality - French

A Carnival Evening

1886

Oil on Canvas

117.3 cm x 89.5 cm

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Paul Gauguin
1848-1903
Nationality - French

The Siesta

1892-4

Oil on Canvas

88.9 cm x 116.2 cm

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Sophie Gengembre Anderson
1823-1903
Nationality - French-born British

The Song of the Lark

Oil on Canvas

43.5 cm x 53.5 cm

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Thomas Barnett
b.1962
Nationality - American

In the Heart of the Ozarks

1925

The Ozarks, also referred to as the Ozark Mountains and Ozark Plateau, 
is a region in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

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Percy French
1854-1920
Nationality - Irish

Near Lands End

No Details

Percy French is better known as the writer of songs like

Abdul Abulbul Amir, Phil the Fluter's Ball and The Mountains of Mourne.

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