Ancient Rome as Subject in Victorian Painting

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA

• Catullus at Lesbia's
• Cleopatra
• Consecration of a Priestess of Bacchus
• A Coign of Vantage
• Silver Favourites
• Tepidarium
• The Vintage Festival

Sir Edward John Poynter PRA

• The Catapult
• Faithful unto Death
• Zenobia Captive
• On the Terrace
• Study for Idle Fears

Simeon Solomon

• Toilette of a Roman Lady

John William Waterhouse

• Mariamne Leaving the Judgement Seat of Herod
• After the Dance
• St. Eulalia

Book Illustration

• W. T. Green's Frontispiece for Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii

Non-British Examples

• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Vergil Reading the Aenid

Last modified 8 November 2006