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Portrait of the Marchesa Luisa Casati, with a Greyhound
Giovanni Boldini
like your style
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Portrait of Mrs. Howard-Johnston (Dolly Baird of Dunbarton)
Giovanni Boldini
Wow
what else can one say
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Roses of Youth
Henrietta Rae
Roses and Youthful beauty
totally captivating
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Lady Tennyson on Afton Downs
Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Were these word's enough
For many of us they were
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Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Choosing)
George Frederic Watts
Ellen you were so young in this
Your grace touch and talent showing
You must have been breathtaking
as Olivia
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July (Specimen of a Portrait)
James Jacques-Joseph Tissot
For heaven's sake come and grab me
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Flaming June
Frederic Lord Leighton
Do not wake me
from my golden sleep
for I do not slumber
in this world I am at peace
I am not sought
for I do delight
It is what I choose
Do not wake me
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Letty
Frederic Lord Leighton
Letty
So sweet and so innocent
where did you go
who did you become
please be at peace
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The Favourite Poet
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
yearning and yearning till I yearn no more
yet you tell there is still more
Oh how I yearn to know more
if there is more then I will yearn no more
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