Garden Paintings.

I have some snowdrops and hellebore in blooming and I could photograph them , but on this first 24-hour interval of the New Year I favour to sit by the fire and show you a few of my pet garden paintings .

Henry James said:‘Summer good afternoon , summer afternoon , to me those have always been the two most beautiful Holy Writ in the English language . ‘ I would care to add ‘ .. in the garden ‘ to that . So countenance ’s start with some nostalgic pictures of English country -cottage garden as previous Victorians liked to see them , gross with rosy - cheek peasant in sunlight bonnets .

Off Marketing . Helen Allingham

Off Marketing. Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham was at the centre of a group of artists populate in Surrey who were hard influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement . They were reacting to the effects of industrialisation and were nostalgic for a rural manner of life which they imagine as idyllic . Gertrude Jekyll , was of course a key member of the Arts and Crafts movement and Helen Allingham painted her herbaceous border at Munstead Wood . I love the exuberance of the planting and the fact that there are daisies in the lawn .

Herbaceous Border . ( Munstead Wood)Helen Allingham

Thomas H. Hunn painted similar rustic scenes with picturesque cottages . He also paint some well do it establish garden . Like Helen Allingham , he paint Gertrude Jekyll ’s garden at Munstead Wood .

Off Marketing. Helen Allingham

Off Marketing. Helen Allingham

The pansy Garden , Munstead Wood . Thomas H. Hunn .

A neighbor of Helen Allingham ’s was the artist Myles Birket Foster . He had also been her tutor . He painted the same sorting of sentimental bungalow and garden scenes that were so pop at the fourth dimension . In fact , from the 1860s on , his paintings appeared on Cadbury ’s chocolate boxes .

Lilac Gathering . Miles Birket Foster

Herbaceous Border. (Munstead Wood) Helen Allingham

Herbaceous Border. (Munstead Wood)Helen Allingham

In fact , I do n’t jazz whether it was a coincidence , but these two artists both paint motion picture of clams cutting .

Cabbage Cutting Helen Allingham

These provincial wo n’t go thirsty ; they have plenty of nutritive cabbages .

The pansy Garden, Mustead Wood. Thomas H. Hunn.

The pansy Garden, Munstead Wood. Thomas H. Hunn.

trim down Cabbages . Miles Birket Foster

Nothing to do with the Arts and Crafts Movement but I could n’t stand position in another Cabbage -cutting delineation . This one is paint by one of The Glasgow Boys , Sir James Guthrie .

The Hind ’s girl . Sir James Guthrie

Lilac Gathering. Miles Birket Foster

Lilac Gathering. Miles Birket Foster

The Glasgow boy were a radical change from stuffy Victorian narrative painting such as Landseer ’s Stag at Bay . They aimed to introduce the realism of Scots rural sprightliness but without sentimentalizing it . They were regulate by French realists of the Barbizon School such as Corot and Millet . I love this picture by Guthrie with the lilliputian missy look straight out of the painting with a defiant , slightly annoyed expression .

Going on in time a moment I jazz Stanley Spencer ’s garden video . If you are only aware of his outre spiritual visions you might get a pleasant surprise when you see the many garden painted around his dear Cookham .

Cottages at Burghclere

Cabbage Cutting Helen Allingham

Cabbage Cutting Helen Allingham

nursery and Gardens

Wisteria , Cookham

All the paintings I have look at today are British 1 , and of course , just a modest selection . possibly another day I will have a look at Gallic garden painting .

Cutting Cabbages. Miles Birket Foster

Cutting Cabbages. Miles Birket Foster

For now though I would like to like you all a very happy new year and I will complete with Beryl Cook to give us a little foretaste of next summer in the garden .

Tea in the Garden Beryl Cook

71 Responses toGarden Paintings.

Oh , how do I love discover these pictures ! This the kind of thing that encourages garden in me , and what a great time to post them , just when I ’m planning for next season . Well , gee whiz , this is a surprise . We have just about the same temperature this New Year ’s Day , ours having a piddling great range . So I ’m keep open you company by the fire 5,500 miles away .

I did enjoy these motion picture of painting , especially that last one of the nudists eating cake . I ’m not contrive to do any naked gardening this come year , although there is plain a Naked Gardening Day . Happy New Year !

Some conversant view Chloris but always a joy to gaze upon them again 🙂 I ’m sure that maintaining a bungalow garden was extremely hard work and not as romanticistic as some of these artists portray . I do n’t hump about you but even if the temperatures soar this summer I will not be sitting out sipping afternoon tea so scantily clad 🙂

The Hind’s Daughter. Sir James Guthrie

The Hind’s Daughter. Sir James Guthrie

There ’s a bit of a romantic in me for English cottage garden . candidly , my garden is a mish - mash of woodland , U.S. native works , and cottage gardens . I feel I would be very at home in a traditional cottage garden , so these painting are soothe – even though , as Anna says , these romantic views do n’t live on the great forcible body of work of it all . Thanks for the selective information about the paintings and the artists . well-chosen New Year !

I make love Beryl Cook . Did you know that the Queen is suppose to own some of her picture ? Somehow shed tea does not seem something one worries about , but it would if you were sip in the nude . It would be interesting to know exactly what year Stanley Spencer painted the onion dry out in the greenhouse as there were no onion to be had in the UK in the early part of the warfare . If he painted this then , it must have been nostalgic .

I love the nostalgic prissy paintings and the others you shared as well . No nude entertaining here either but the Cook picture brought a chortle . Thanks for this sport post !

Cottages at Burghclere

Cottages at Burghclere

My sister found an original country bungalow painting in a junk shop a few years ago – nothing for the Antiques Roadshow but very pleasant to look at and very much in the style of Helen Allingham . In the first of the cabbage cut off paintings , it seems to me that the woman is take care at her vegetable patch and thinking ‘ Not cabbage soup again ! ” My sis had a supporter who lived entirely on cabbages in her first wintertime of self - adequacy and had a standardised reaction . These are lovely paintings that you ’ve choose , Chloris , thank you . And , of row , Rusty Duck ’s MiL is plainly observing her FiL ’s cucumber sandwich 😉

I enjoyed your postal service . I bed “ The Hind ’s Daughter ” and was surprised to encounter myself attracted to the Spencer paintings too , particularly the first one . I saw Jessica ’s input on the Cook picture – it would be funny to “ see ” someone you knew in any picture but that one even more so !

The paintings are fantastic ! I love the Off Marketing and Herbaceous Border by Helen Allingham . Her workplace is beautiful . I have a house painting of a garden and patio scene done in a soft watercolor which I have had for years and her work reminds me of it . I like the notion of almost being inside the painting and she seems to have that effect .

Greenhouse and Gardens

Greenhouse and Gardens

Garden Paintings.