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Part two

These works illustrate two different approaches to painting during the 19th century. Paintings like Poynter's 'Faithful unto death' and the iconic 'And when did you last see your father?' by Yeames capture the Victorian taste for sentimental or moral narratives. Meanwhile, mainly on the continent, artists such as Cézanne were beginning to approach painting in a way that would have far longer reaching consequences.

two men attacking a man on the ground ‘The Murder ’
Paul Cézane

Dead woman with man kneeling nearby ‘Elaine’
Sophie Anderson

man kissing a woman surrounded by attendants ‘Dante's Dream ’
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

a white sculpture of a man with a beard ‘Bust of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow'
Edmonia Lewis

woman leaninng on her hand ‘Leonora di Mantua’
Valentine Cameron Prinsep

woman dressed in white with two little girls ‘Portrait of Mrs Catherine Smith Gill’
James Jacques Joseph Tissot

angel and a man ‘Elijah in the Wilderness’
Frederic Leighton

black sculpture of snake wrapped around a man ‘Athlete struggling with a python'
Frederic Leighton

little boy standing in front of a table of men ‘And when did you last see your father?’
William Frederick Yeames

family eating a meal and petting a horse ‘One of the family’
Frederick Cotman

woman in a headscarf on the street ‘A Street in Brittany ’
Stanhope Forbes

priests eating a hearty meal ‘Friday’
Walter Dendy Sadler

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