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Alice Bankes, Lady Borlase (1621-1683)

Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 -1641)

Date: c. 1637-1640

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Description

A three-quarter-length portrait of the eldest daughter of Sir John Bankes; standing beside a plinth with a vase of roses, wearing a white dress with a blue shawl held to her body with her right hand.

Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835-1900) and Princess Feodore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1839-1872)

Artist: German von Bohn (German, 1812-1899)

Date: 1852

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Princesses Adelaide (1835-1900) and Feodore (1839-72) were the youngest children of Princess Feodore of Leningren and Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794–1860). Feodore was Queen Victoria's half-sister, as the daughter of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Duchess of Kent, by her first marriage to Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814). Queen Victoria remained close to her half-sister throughout her life, and took a lively interest in her two nieces.

Watching the Bees

Artist: Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852-1919)

Date: 1896

Medium: Pastel and charcoal on wove paper

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

April Love

Artist: Arthur Hughes (English, 1832–1915)

Date: ca. 1855-1856

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Description

Arthur Hughes’s painting shows a moment of tension between a young couple. The woman turns away as the man bows his head, pressing her hand between his. The sunlit lilacs are symbols of young love but the crushed rose in the shadows on the ground suggests that the relationship is troubled. By contrast, Hughes married the model Tryphena Ford the year this picture was painted. It brought Hughes success and was purchased by William Morris.