{"product_id":"frederick-richard-pickersgill-ra-nazarene-scene-original-mid-19th-century-watercolour-painting-kd-480","title":"Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene – Mid-19th-century watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original mid-19th-century watercolour painting – Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wonderful watercolour by Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (1820–1900) shows a biblical scene, possibly the capture of Samson by the Philistines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Richard Pickersgill was a painter and illustrator who often depicted scenes drawn from history, mythology, literature and the Bible. This drawing shows his admiration for John Flaxman RA (1755–1826), whose engraved outline illustrations of Homer, Aeschylus and Dante emphasised classical forms, bodily movements and drapery. The subject is also indebted to the Nazarenes, the early 19th-century group of German artists who favoured religious or allegorical subjects and who had a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePickersgill painted two oil paintings on the subject of Samson Betrayed, in 1850 and 1862, now in the collections of Manchester City Art Galleries and Benthall Hall, National Trust respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn pen and brown ink with brown and blue wash. On cream wove paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54290497175881,"sku":"KD-480","price":502.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KD-480.jpg?v=1777476490","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/es-eu\/products\/frederick-richard-pickersgill-ra-nazarene-scene-original-mid-19th-century-watercolour-painting-kd-480","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}