1º Manuela Gonzales Velasquez playing the piano detail 1820.

2º Hagar in de woestijn” details by François Joseph Navez, 1819

Details: Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles; Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663, Karel Dujardin.

Minoan art

Art based on Greek myths by twin illustrator-sisters, Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone. From Roger Lancelyn Green's "Tales of the Greeks and Trojans" (1963).

In 1892 20-year-old clerk Aubrey Beardsley was commissioned to illustrate a new edition of Malory's Morte d'Arthur - his first major commission. Although the edition was only modestly successful, the artwork was innovative and launched the 'Beardsley look'