Mythology in Victorian Painting

Hercules

• Violet Brunton, Hercules and the Hydra, the Second Labour

Homer and the Trojan War

• Sir Edward John Poynter, Helen
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Helen of Troy
• J. M. W. Turner, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
• John William Waterhouse, Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
• John William Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa
• John William Waterhouse, Circe
• John William Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891
• John William Waterhouse, Penelope and the Suitors

Orpheus and Euridice

• Violet Brunton, Orpheus and Eurydice
• George Frederick Watts, Orpheus and Euridice (1)
• George Frederick Watts, Orpheus and Euridice (2)
• Charles De Sousy Ricketts, Orpheus and Euridice
• John William Waterhouse, Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus

Perseus

• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Perseus Series
• Sir Edward John Poynter, Perseus and Andromeda
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Pygmalion Series

Psyche

• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Zephyr and Psyche
• John William Waterhouse, Psyche

Venus (and love)

• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Venus
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Venus Rising from the Sea
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, The Mirror of Venus
• Sidney Harold Meteyard, Venus and Mars
• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Venus Epithalamia
• John Rodham Spencer Stanhope, Love and the Maiden

Other Myths

• Edward Calvert, Cyrene and Cattle
• Herbert James Draper, Lamia
• William Etty, Nymph and Satyr
• John William Godward, The Delphic Oracle
• Atkinson Grimshaw, Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow
• Frederic Lord Leighton, A Pastoral
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine
• Charles Sims, The Beautiful is Fled
• Simeon Solomon, Damon and Aglae
• John Rodham Spencer Stanhope, Procris and Cephalus
• J. M. W. Turner, Apollo and Python
• J. M. W. Turner, Dido Building Carthage
• J. M. W. Turner, The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides
• John William Waterhouse, Ariadne
• John William Waterhouse, The Danaides
• John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus
• John William Waterhouse, Hylas and the Nymphs
• John William Waterhouse, Diogenes
• Eleanor Vere Boyle, Mermaids

Last modified 14 December 2005