Paintings

 

1979: International Year of the Child - Jersey Artists

John Everett Millais was a child prodigy so rather apt for this issue's theme.

He and his wife Effie Gray had eight children, their third child (and first girl) Effie appears on the painting 8p -  'My First Sermon' (1863), he later painted a companion piece of her called 'My Second Sermon', no longer attentive but fast asleep. 10½p Orphans (1885), Millais had a fondness for painting children and animals

11p The Princes in the Tower (1878) (that is not going to end well). 25p Christ in the House of his Parents, first exhibited in 1849 when Millais was only 20 and a pre-Raphaelite. Denounced by critics of the time as "too life-like" and referred to as the Carpenters Shop.  In fact it was exhibited without a title but accompanied with a biblical quote 'And one shall say unto him, What are those wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.' (Zech. 13:6). Today it hangs in the Tate

Time to head outdoors

1988: Danish Painters

and as we are having a hot spell here at the moment something to cool one down - 'The Hill at Overkaerby, Winter 1917' by Fritz Syberg and Bathing Boys 1902 by Peter Hansen.

Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Fine Art - enjoy more at  See It On A Postcard