The Subjects of Victorian Painting (original) (raw)

Women

• Pre-Raphaelite Fair Ladies and Beloveds
• Castways, Fallen Women, Outcasts
• Images of Women (22 categories)

Historical subjects

• Ancient Rome
• Ancient Greece
• Medieval
• Renaissance
• Military subjects

The External World

• Landscape
• Flower-Painting
• Urban Scenes, Cityscapes
• Orientalists: British Painters of the Mid and Far East
• Shipwreck

Myth, Symbol, and Folklore

• Classical Mythology
• Idylls (Idyllic Scenes)
• Fairies
• The Sphinx

Religious Painting

• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Scenes of Religious Life

Social History

• Factory
• Manual labor
• Household labor, including domestic servants and governesses
• Teachers and governesses
• Heavy Industry
• Fisherman
• Farming and Herding
• The unemployed, the down and out
• Emigration
• Art for (and of) the People: A Review of The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age, by Jeremy Paxman

Portraiture

• Queen Victoria
• Portraits