John William Godward

1861–1922 · Realism

John William Godward was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but his style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern art.

40 paintings

• Venus Binding her Hair (1897)
• Yes or No (1893)
• Reverie (1912) (1912)
• Sweet Dreams (1904)
• A Congenial Task (1915)
• Endymion (1893)
• Classical Beauty
• In Realms of Fancy (1911)
• Sweet Dreams (1901)
• A Dilettante (1922)
• A Pompeian lady (1904)
• A priestess of Bacchus (1890)
• A signal (1918)
• Far away thoughts (Rose Pettigrew) (1892)
• Corinna
• Eighty and eighteen (1898)
• A Fair Reflection (1915)
• The Mirror (1899)
• In the Tepidarium (1913)
• A Pompeian Bath (1890)
• The Quiet Pet (1906)
• Ione (1896)
• On the Balcony (1911)
• Waiting for the procession (1890)
• A Roman Beauty (1912)
• The Trysting Place (1907)
• Violets, Sweet Violets (1906)
• Lycinna (1918)
• A Pompeian Lady (1891)
• Waiting for an answer (1889)
• A Priestess (1893)
• Tranquility (1914)
• Ionian Dancing Girl (1902)
• The Old, Old Story (1903)
• Nerissa (1906)
• At the Garden Shrine, Pompeii (1892)
• Il Dolce Far Niente (1893) (1893)
• Reverie (1904)
• Mischief and Repose (1895)
• The Signal (1899)