The Subjects of Victorian Painting
Women
Pre-Raphaelite Fair Ladies and Beloveds
Castways, Fallen Women, Outcasts
Images of Women: An Overview
(22 categories)
Historical subjects
British history
Ancient Greece and Rome
Medieval
Renaissance
Eighteenth-century
Military subjects
The External World
Landscape
Urban Scenes, Cityscapes
Orientalists: British Painters of the Mid and Far East
Shipwreck
Myth, Symbol, and Folklore
Classical Mythology
Idylls
(Idyllic Scenes)
Fairies
The Sphinx
Religious Painting
Old Testament
New Testament
Scenes of Religious Life
Social History — Work and other Themes
Factory
Manual labor
Household labor, including domestic servants and governesses
Teachers and governesses
Heavy Industry
Fisherman
Farming and Herding
The unemployed, the down and out
Emigration
Portraiture
Queen Victoria
Last modified 14 December 2005