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Entrance hall
Garden Hall
- 'Ferdinand Lured by Ariel', John Everett Millais
- 'A Sunny Corner', Frederic Lord Leighton
- 'David Strangling the Lion', John Rogers Herbert
- 'Circe and Scylla', John Melhuish Strudwick
- 'Tobias and the Fish', John Rogers Herbert
- 'Ruth and Naomi', Ary Scheffer
- 'In a Convent Garden', George Dunlop Leslie
- 'O Swallow, Swallow'
- 'The Garden of Gethsemane', William Dyce
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Childhood room
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Elsewhere on the web

John Melhuish Strudwick at Artcyclopedia - comprehensive list of artworks available to view online
John Melhuish Strudwick - brief biography
'The Princess', Tennyson - full text

'O Swallow, Swallow', John Melhuish Strudwick

Portrait of a woman in a red dress with a blue scarf before an open window

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This painting was inspired by lines from Tennyson’s ‘The Princess’ about a swallow flying south with a message from the poet to his beloved. She sits in a richly painted, intricately decorated interior awaiting the message from the bird, which is seen through the open window. Strudwick was a follower of Burne-Jones but his work is more intimate and packed with detail. This is the second of the paintings commissioned by George Holt from Strudwick for Sudley.

Artwork Details

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Date: 1894
Accession No: WAG 305