George William Joy: Le Someil de Jeanne d'Arc

George William Joy: Le Someil de Jeanne d'Arc
oil on canvas, 1895
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
(http://musee.louvre.fr/bases/doutremanche/notice.php?lng=1&idOeuvre=1687&vignette=oui&nonotice=1&no_page=1&total=448&texte=&titre=&localisation=&periode=&artiste=%22JOY,%20George%20William%22&date=&domaine=&f=3110&images_sans=images&nb_par_page=36)
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Joan of Arc guarded by an angel.


(George William Joy)

George William Joy: The Bayswater Omnibus

George William Joy: The Bayswater Omnibus
oil on canvas, 1895
Museum of London
(http://unafinestrasulondra.blogspot.com/2012/05/bayswater_28.html)
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(George William Joy)

George William Joy

George William Joy, Self Portrait
oil on canvas, c. 1767-1768
Natural History Museum of Denmark
(http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=57102#)
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Born in Dublin in 1844, spending most of his life in London, he remained known as a history and genre painter, excelling in the heroic subjects (like the death of General Gordon), while pursuing the perfect female form in his nudes. Joy died in 1925.

• The Bayswater Omnibus
• Le Someil de Jeanne d'Arc

(The Moderns)