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Augustus Egg

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Augustus Leopold Egg RA (London 2 May 1816 – 26 March 1863 Algiers) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family. [1]

49 relations: Alexander Bassano, Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Art of the United Kingdom, Augustus (disambiguation), Augustus (given name), Durs Egg, Eastbourne Blue Plaques, Egg (disambiguation), Evelyn Waugh, Found Drowned, Genre art, Genre painting, George Devey, Henry Nelson O'Neil, History painting, Hogarth Club, Hospitalfield House, Jane Ellen Panton, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Lamb Theatre, Letters of Charles Dickens, List of British painters, Mary Dickens, Nocturne (painting), Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, Past and Present (paintings), Richard Burchett, Richard Dadd, Rupert Maas, Samuel Bellin, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shell game, Tate Britain, Tavistock House, The Awakening Conscience, The Bridge of Sighs (poem), The Clique, The Death of Chatterton, The Derby Day, The Outcast (Redgrave painting), The Travelling Companions, Thomas Fairbairn, Trains in art, Walter Goodman, Wilkie Collins, William Henry Wills (journalist), Women in the Victorian era, 1858 in art, 1862 in art.

Alexander Bassano

Alexander Bassano (10 May 1829 – 21 October 1913) was an English photographer who was a leading royal and high society portrait photographer in Victorian London.

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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is a fictional character and protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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Art of the United Kingdom

The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompass English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history.

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Augustus (disambiguation)

Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD) was the first emperor of ancient Rome.

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Augustus (given name)

Augustus is a masculine given name derived from Augustus, meaning "majestic," "the increaser," or "venerable".

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Durs Egg

Durs Egg (1748–1831) was a Swiss-born British gunmaker, noted for his flintlock pistols and for his company's production of the Ferguson rifle.

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Eastbourne Blue Plaques

Eastbourne Blue Plaques is a scheme for erecting blue plaques in Eastbourne, England.

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Egg (disambiguation)

An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo begins to develop.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Found Drowned

Found Drowned is an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, c. 1850, inspired by Thomas Hood's 1844 poem "The Bridge of Sighs".

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Genre art

Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.

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Genre painting

Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.

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George Devey

George Devey (1820, London – 1886, Hastings, Sussex) was an English architect notable for his work on country houses and their estates, especially those belonging to the Rothschild family.

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Henry Nelson O'Neil

Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817 in Russia – 1880) was an historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer.

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History painting

History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style.

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Hogarth Club

The Hogarth Club was an exhibition society of artists, based at 84 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, UK, which existed between 1858 and 1861.

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Hospitalfield House

Hospitalfield House is an arts centre and historic house in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland regarded as "one of the finest country houses in Scotland".

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Jane Ellen Panton

Jane Ellen Panton or Jane Ellen Frith Panton; Jane Ellen Frith (18 October 1847 – 13 May 1923) was a British writer.

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John Roddam Spencer Stanhope

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite.

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Lamb Theatre

The Lamb Theatre is a fringe theatre, situated above the Lamb Inn in Old Town, Eastbourne.

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Letters of Charles Dickens

The letters of Charles Dickens, of which more than 14,000 are known, range in date from about 1821, when Dickens was 9 years old, to 8 June 1870, the day before he died.

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List of British painters

The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order).

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Mary Dickens

Mary "Mamie" Dickens (6 March 1838 – 23 July 1896) was the eldest daughter of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.

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Nocturne (painting)

Nocturne painting is a term coined by James Abbott McNeill Whistler to describe a painting style that depicts scenes evocative of the night or subjects as they appear in a veil of light, in twilight, or in the absence of direct light.

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Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts

Not So Bad as We Seem, Or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, was a play written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1851, and performed the same year as a charity event to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors.

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Past and Present (paintings)

Past and Present is the title usually given to the series of three oil paintings made by Augustus Egg in 1858, which are designed to be exhibited together as a triptych.

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Richard Burchett

Richard Burchett (1815–1875) was a British artist and educator on the fringes of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who was for over twenty years the Headmaster of what later became the Royal College of Art.

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Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.

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Rupert Maas

Rupert Nicholas Maas (born 23 July 1960) is an English painting specialist and gallery owner, known for his numerous media and television appearances, particularly on the long-running series Antiques Roadshow where he has appeared since 1997.

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Samuel Bellin

Samuel Bellin (13 May 1799 - 29 April 1893) was an English printmaker and engraver.

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Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Shell game

The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud.

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Tate Britain

Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London.

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Tavistock House

Tavistock House was the London home of the noted British author Charles Dickens and his family from 1851 to 1860.

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The Awakening Conscience

The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which depicts a young woman rising from her position in the lap of a man and gazing transfixed out of the window of a room.

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The Bridge of Sighs (poem)

"The Bridge of Sighs" is a famous poem of 1844 by Thomas Hood concerning the suicide of a homeless young woman who threw herself from Waterloo Bridge in London.

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The Clique

The Clique was a group of English artists formed by Richard Dadd in the late 1830s.

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The Death of Chatterton

The Death of Chatterton is an oil painting on canvas, by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, now in Tate Britain, London.

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The Derby Day

The Derby Day is a large oil painting showing a panoramic view of The Derby, painted by William Powell Frith over 15 months from 1856 to 1858.

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The Outcast (Redgrave painting)

The Outcast is an 1851 oil painting by Victorian artist Richard Redgrave, depicting a family's reaction to a daughter bearing an illegitimate child.

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The Travelling Companions

The Travelling Companions is an 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by British artist Augustus Leopold Egg.

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Thomas Fairbairn

Sir Thomas Fairbairn, 2nd Baronet (18 January 1823 - 12 August 1891) was an English industrialist and art collector.

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Trains in art

A locomotive or train can play many roles in art, for example.

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Walter Goodman

Walter Goodman (11 May 1838 – 20 August 1912) was an English painter, illustrator and author.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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William Henry Wills (journalist)

William Henry Wills JP (13 January 1810 – 1 September 1880) was a British journalist, playwright, a newspaper editor and a close friend and confidant of the author Charles Dickens, who entrusted Wills with the task of forwarding his letters to his mistress Ellen Ternan.

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Women in the Victorian era

The status of women in the Victorian era was often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions.

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1858 in art

Events from the year 1858 in art.

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1862 in art

Events from the year 1862 in art.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Egg

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