Mostly Renaissance looking people seen through a Victorian haze. Historical genre paintings by British artist David Wilkie Wynfield. Living from 1837 to 1887, he was also a photographer. A founding member of the Saint John’s Wood Clique

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The Arrest of Anne Boleyn at Greenwich. 1872. British. Oil on canvas. David Wilkie Wynfield, painter (1837-1887). Inscribed D. W. W. 1872. Photo credit and collections Photo credit: Royal Armouries at the Tower of London. In the public domain due to age. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-arrest-of-anne-boleyn-at-greenwich-135148/search/keyword:wynfield–referrer:global-search
Summer Hours. 1861. British. Oil on canvas. David Wilkie Wynfield, painter (1837-1887). Exhibited by the artist at the British Institution in 1862, number. 618. Photo credit and collections of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, mima. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/summer-hours-56643/search/keyword:wynfield–referrer:global-search
Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. 1865. British. Oil on canvas. David Wilkie Wynfield, painter (1837-1887). Signed and dated. Photo credit and collections of Rotherham Heritage Services. In the public domain due to age. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-viii-and-anne-boleyn-69334/search/keyword:wynfield–referrer:global-search
An Incident in the Life of Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth and Essex). 1875. British. Oil on canvas. David Wilkie Wynfield, painter (1837-1887). Photo credit and collections Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage. In the public domain due to age. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-incident-in-the-life-of-queen-elizabeth-queen-elizabeth-and-essex-18829/search/keyword:wynfield–referrer:global-search
The Lady’s Knight. 1873. British. Oil on canvas. David Wilkie Wynfield, painter (1837-1887). Photo credit Shipley Art Gallery. In the public domain due to age. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ladys-knight-35845/search/keyword:wynfield–referrer:global-search

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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