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Midsummer's Eve: A Reverence to Roses, 1905 by John Henry Lorimer (Scottish, 1856–1936)

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The Flight of the Swallows by John Henry Lorimer, 1906

This is the kind of painting that instantly calms me and lets my mind wander. I find myself imagining what they’re seeing, what’s just happened. The warm light, the children’s curiosity, it all feels so alive and intimate. There’s something beautifully simple about it, like a quiet moment I wish I could step into.

John Henry Lorimer - Old Lady and Her Pets, Posed by Mrs. William Sommerville (1901 )

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A Lullaby

Artist: John Henry Lorimer (Scottish, 1856-1936)

Date: 1889

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

This study of a nurse and her sleeping charge was painted in a tower of Lorimer’s home in Kellie Castle, Pittenween. It depicts his baby nephew, Thomas Chalmers, son of the Chief Justice of British Guiana and his minder, Joanna Herbert from Demerara. By 1889, the year in which this celebrated and widely exhibited painting was made, thinking on childcare had greatly modernized. The practice of swaddling was abandoned. Now able to move freely, babies no longer needed constant rocking to distract them from their discomfort. The new cult of fresh air meant that nurses were urged to keep windows open even in freezing weather.