Sujet

Home from Sea, 1856-1863. Creator: Arthur Hughes.

Légende

Home from Sea, 1856-1863. This work was originally exhibited as 'The Mother's Grave': a boy in sailor's uniform weeps over the grave of his mother who has died while he was at sea. Details such as spider's webs, dew drops, dog roses and dandelion seeds emphasise the theme of life's transience. The mother's death is also echoed in the lamb separated from its mother by the barrier of the tombstone. The artist's wife, Tryphena, sat for the figure of the boy's sister; the scene is the churchyard at Chingford in Essex. Painting in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. From "Pre-Raphaelite Painters" by Robin Ironside, with a descriptive catalogue by John Gere. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 1948]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM21B50_027

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

67,2Mo (14,3Mo) / 46,7cm x 36,0cm / 5520 x 4255 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature animal season female women woman people male boy boys man men hat summer family religious flower flowers plant plants painting religion straw hat ephemeral guy rose roses clothes sheep British church color lamb death Christianity crying dress brother sister century cemetery grave graves graveyard Britain cry clothing overgrown concept ivy weeping mourning churchyard bereaved bereavement oil Painting Colour 19th century nineteenth century transience artistic school mourning dress Pre-Raphaelite oil young women young man young men young woman Hughes John Arthur Hughes artistic style Hughes Arthur Foord Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Shirley Markham 19th-century Robin Ironside Ironside Robin John Gere Gere John Arthur Giles Gere John Arthur Giles Tryphena Hughes Tryphena Tryphena Foord Tryphena Foord Hughes