Paintings by John William Waterhouse

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Classic Subjects: Subjects from Classic Myth or Set in Classical Times

• Ariadne, 1898
• The Awakening of Adonis, 1900
• Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1892
• Circe Invidiosa, 1892
• Circe, c. 1911
• Destiny
• Echo and Narcissus
• Hylas and the Nymphs, 1896
• Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus, 1900
• Diogenes, 1882
• Penelope and the Suitors, 1912
• Psyche
• Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891
• Phyllis and Demophoon, 1897

Subjects Set in Roman Times

• Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod, 1887
• After the Dance, 1876
• St. Eulalia, 1885
• The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of His Mother, 1878
• The Favorites of the Emperor Honorius, 1883
• A Bye-way in Old Rome
• The Oracle

Medieval Subjects

• A Mermaid, 1901
• St. Ceilia, 1895
• Fair Rosamund, 1917
• Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Keats)
• Juliet, c. 1897 (Shakespeare)
• The Shrine, 1895 (Tennyson)
• "I am Half Sick of Shadows," said the Lady of Shalott, 1911 (Tennyson)
• Mariana in the South (Tennyson), 1897
• Lady of Shalott, 1894
• Ophelia, 1894

Allegorical Subjects

• Destiny, 1900
• Sleep and His Half-Brother, 1874
• Vanity

Portraits

• Portrait of Phyllis Waterhouse, c. 1899
• Mary Physick, the Artist's Step-sister, c. 1880

General

• Maidens Picking Flowers by a Stream
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
• An Eastern Reminiscence
• The Rose Bower
• Windflower, 1903
• Interior at Pompeii
• Margaret, Scottish Martyr
• Anemones

Paintings in the Pérez Simón Collection (no images on this site)

• The Crystal Ball, 1902
• Study for Jason and Medea (The Love Philtre), 1906-07
• A Song of Springtime, 1913

A Waterhouse Gallery

Discussions

• Waterhouse and Pre-Raphaelite Style
• The Middle-Ages from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John William Waterhouse
• Waterhouse and Classicism
• Waterhouse between Aestheticism and Classicism
• The Remorse of Nero After the Murder of His Mother: A Brief Explanation
• Same Style, Different Women: J. W. Waterhouse and Overcoming the Femme Fatale

Bibliography

Trippi, Peter. J. W. Waterhouse. London: Phaidon, 2002.

Hobson, Anthony. The Art and Life of J. W. Waterhouse, R.A.. London.

Newall, Christopher. A Celebration of British and European Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries. London: Peter Nahum, nd [1999?]. Pp. 46-47.

Wood, Christopher. Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters. London: Constable, 1983. 224-44.

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