FAMOUS PAINTINGS
VOLUME 1

The Ambassadors


Famous Paintings was printed by Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1913.
The paintings are "Selected from the World's Great Galleries and Reproduced in Colour"
The introduction to the book is by G.K. Chesterton . The pictures are in the public domain.
If you choose to use one of them I would appreciate a link back to this page.
A lot of time and effort has gone into making them available to you.

This Art Gallery is a companion page to

Art Appreciation Lessons

Art Gallery, Famous Paintings Volume 2





We have a new game "Name the Painting".




ART GALLERY





M. Bompard
A Prayer to the Madonna



Botticelli
The Madonna and Child


Sir Edward Coley
Burne-Jones
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid



Sir Edward Coley
Burne-Jones
The Mill



Jean Charles Cazin
Ishmael



John Constable
Boat-Building Near
Flatford Mill



John Crome
On the Skirts of the Forest



Pascal Adolphe Jean
Dagnan-Bouveret
The Blessed Bread



Theophile Emanuel Duverger
Alone



C.W. Furse
Diana of the Uplands



W.H. Gore
"'Listed"



Peter Graham
A Rainy Day



Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Listening Girl



Sir James Guthrie
A Highland Funeral



Frans Hals
A Man With a Glove
In His Hand



Hans Holbein the Younger
The Ambassadors



Henry Holiday
Dante and Beatrice



Sir Edwin Landseer
Suspense



Sir Edwin Landseer
A Naughty Child



H.H. La Thangue
Mowing Bracken



Sir Thomas Lawrence
Caroline of Brunswick,
Queen of George IV.


G.D. Leslie
Sun and Moon Flowers



J. Seymour Lucas
Flirtation



Jean Louis Ernest
Meissonier
The Print Collector



Jean Francois Millet
The Angelus



Jean Francois Millet
Going to Work



Sir William Quiller
Orchardson
The Farmer's Daughter



Ralph Peacock
Ethel



Rembrandt
His Own Portrait



Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Infant Samuel



Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Strawberry Girl



George Romney
The Parson's Daughter



W. Dendy Sadler
A Good Story



W. Dendy Sadler
Friday



William Small
The Last Match



J.M. Swan
On the Alert,
Lioness and Cubs



J.M.W. Turner
Peace: Burial at Sea of the
Body of Sir David Wilkie



J.M.W. Turner
Rain Steam and Speed
The Great Western Railway



Velazquez
Portrait of a Spanish Lady
"La Femme a L'Eventail"



Frederick Walker
The Vagrants



George Frederick Watts
Hope



James McNeill Whistler
My Mother



Anders Zorn
A Fisherman

Art Appreciation
48 Lessons for Kids
Free printable worksheets
and activities
(Different Series)


Jigsaw Puzzles


Thanks to my cousin Brian Perkins for the use of the book Famous Paintings.
You can contact him for rare and hard-to-find books at:
Back Door Book Store
3071 Wabash
Ft. Worth, Texas 76109
817-921-3292
email: briiansr (then use the symbol for "at") yahoo.com


Thanks to my son, Elton, for help with some of the pictures.
Visit him for stock photos and inspirational pictures.



My mother, Vera Griffin was also a well-known artist in West Texas.





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