Augustus Egg

1816–1863 · Realism

Augustus Leopold Egg RA was a British Victorian artist, and member of The Clique best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the breakup of a middle-class Victorian family.

29 paintings

• Madame de Maintenon and Scarron
• Beatrix Knighting Esmond (1857)
• Feria at Seville (1850)
• The Introduction of Sir Piercie Shafton to Halbert Glendinning (1843)
• Queen Elizabeth in a Rage
• Scene from 'The Winter's Tale' (Act IV, Scene 4) (from the play by William Shakespeare) (1845)
• Launce's Substitute for Proteus' Dog (from 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' by William Shakespeare) (1849)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909) (1850)
• The Opera Mantle (1851)
• Charles Dickens Playing Sir Charles Coldstream
• Charles I Raising His Standard at Nottingham (1852)
• Esmond Returns after the Battle of Wynendael, Scene from William Thackeray's 'History of Henry Esmond, Esq.' (1857)
• Self Portrait as a Distressed Poet (1858)
• The Night before Naseby (1859)
• 'The Taming of the Shrew' (from the play by William Shakespeare)
• Lady in a Green Dress
• The love letter. (1863)
• The Travelling Companions (1862)
• The Death of Buckingham
• The Life of Buckingham
• L'Amante (1839)
• Unknown woman, formerly known as Florence Nightingale
• Study for "Come Rest in this Bosom my own Stricken Dear" (1844)
• The Life of Buckingham (1855)
• Beatrix Knighting Esmond (1857)
• Past and Present, No. 1 (1858)
• Past and Present, No. 3 (1858)
• Past and Present, No. 2 (1858)
• Scene from ‘The Devil upon Two Sticks’ (1844)