Study for ‘The Lady Clare’
Red chalk on paper
36.8 x 48.3 cm
She clad herself in a russen gown,
She was no longer Lady Clare:
She went by dale, and she went by down,
With a single rose in her hair.
Lady Clare - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I am practicing master copies of every romantic Waterhouse drawing that I can find; Lady Clare has been a favorite.note: Waterhouse was known by his family and friends as Nino.
(Source: honeymuse)
Lamia (by the Pond) by John William Waterhouse, 1909, oil on canvas, 92.5 x 57.5 cm, auctioned by Christie’s in 2008
Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright,
A full-born beauty new and exquisite?
She fled into that valley they pass o’er
Who go to Corinth from Cenchreas’ shore;
And rested at the foot of those wild hills,
The rugged founts of the Peraean rills,
And of that other ridge whose barren back
Stretches, with all its mist and cloudy rack,
South-westward to Cleone. There she stood
About a young bird’s flutter from a wood,
Fair, on a sloping green of mossy tread,
By a clear pool, wherein she passioned
To see herself escap’d from so sore ills,
While her robes flaunted with the daffodils.
(from Lamia by John Keats, 1819)
The Danaïdes by John William Waterhouse, 1903, oil on canvas, 111 x 154.3 cm, private collection.
The fifty daughters of Danaus. He fled with his daughters in fear of his twin brother Aegyptus, but the fifty sons of Aegyptos followed them to Argos and forced Danaus to give them his daughters in marriage. At their father’s behest they murdered their husbands at their wedding night. The only one who spared her husband was Hypermnestra. In Hades, the girls were condemned eternally to pour water in a vessel with holes in its bottom.
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