The Empty Bed
Olive Attar-Crib's rather painful work, The Empty Bed, was one of her most successful. It was also the piece she hated most.
The frustrated Victorian artist, who really wanted to work with new techniques and colours, and paint pictures of bullfighting and military battles, found the constraints of her time meant she was unable to move away from such set pieces as the one above.
Whilst in her time her pictures generated a considerable income for her, much against her will, they quickly lost favour as the Victorian era came to an end.
Today, however, there is a resurgence in Victorian interest, epitomised by the new Victorian Exhibition at the Sufton Gallery.
They have hung this little tearjerker, fittingly, by the exit near the lavatories.
The other paintings in this exhibitions are:
The Empty Bed
Olive Attar-Crib's rather painful work, The Empty Bed, was one of her most successful. It was also the piece she hated most.
The frustrated Victorian artist, who really wanted to work with new techniques and colours, and paint pictures of bullfighting and military battles, found the constraints of her time meant she was unable to move away from such set pieces as the one above.
Whilst in her time her pictures generated a considerable income for her, much against her will, they quickly lost favour as the Victorian era came to an end.
Today, however, there is a resurgence in Victorian interest, epitomised by the new Victorian Exhibition at the Sufton Gallery.
They have hung this little tearjerker, fittingly, by the exit near the lavatories.
The other paintings in this exhibitions are: