Victorian Art
During the the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), a distinctive style of art emerged. Known as Victorian art, it reflected the idea that the role of art was to reflect the world, not to idealize it. Victorian art was characterized by accuracy and attention to detail, often painted directly from nature. These artists of the Victorian era reflected some of the same artistic ideas as the writers of the period
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge, 1892, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Monarch of the Glen, Edwin Landseer, 1851.
Alphonse Mucha, 1896, The Four Seasons: Spring
Portrait of a Woman in Gray, c. 1865, Edgar Degas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel, 1957 (57.171)
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Dancer, c. 1880, Edgar Degas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2001, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 (2001.202.2)
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Ophelia (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet) by John Everett Millais, 1851–1852. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt, c. 1868. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
