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Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may painting date: 1909 medium: Oil on canvas size: 100 x 83 cm (39.5 x 32.5 in) location: Private Collection Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old time is still a-flying; And the same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. (Robert Herrick) Courtesy of the Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto. Celebrating the splendour of youth and the joys of spring, this important ..

A Mermaid painting date: 1900 medium: Oil on canvas size: 98 x 67 cm location: Royal Academy of Arts, London, England This painting was Waterhouse's diploma work for the Royal Academy. A mermaid (masculine Merman) was a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a human being and the tail of a fish. Similar divine or semidivine beings appear in ancient mythologies (e.g., the Chaldea..

Pandora painting date: 1896 medium: Oil on canvas size: 152 x 91 cm location: Private Collection In myth, Pandora was the first woman ever to be created. At the request of Zeus, she was fashioned from clay by Hephaestus and blessed with every gift the gods could grant. Zeus then endowed her with a box to present to the man who married her, thereby planning to destroy Prometheus' creation of man..

At Capri painting date: 1890 medium: Oil on canvas size: 84 x 47 cm Also known as 'Alfresco Toilet at Capri' or 'The Toilet'. Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses painting date: 1891 medium: Oil on canvas size: 149 x 92 cm location: Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, England On his return from the Trojan War, Ulysses sailed to the fantastic island of Aeaea inhabited by Circe, a beautiful but powerful sor..

A Flower Stall painting date: 1880 medium: Oil on canvas size: 56 x 79 cm location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England Dolce Far Niente painting date: 1880 medium: Oil on canvas size: 50 x 95.5 cm location: Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy, Scotland Diogenes painting date: 1882 medium: Oil on canvas size: 208 x 135 cm location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Aus..

The Slave painting date: 1872 medium: Oil on canvas size: 10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.3 cm) location: Private Collection Undine painting date: 1872 size: Unknown Exhibited at the Society of British Artists, 1872. Also spelled Ondine. Undine is a mythological figure of European tradition, a water nymph who becomes human when she falls in love with a man but is doomed to die if he is unfaithful to her. ..

The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius painting date: 1883 medium: Oil on canvas size: 117 x 202 cm location: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Flavius Honorius (born 384, died 423) was Roman Emperor in the West from 393 to 423, a period when much of the Western Empire was overrun by invading tribes and Rome was captured and plundered by the Visigoths. Honorius was one of the ..

Waterhouse, known to his family and friends as Nino, was born in Italy in 1849 to English parents, moving to London at an early age. His father was an artist and Waterhouse followed in his footsteps. Waterhouse's early paintings were influenced by Victorian neo-classicism as practiced by Alma-Tadema, Leighton and Poynter. Later, he came under the spell of the second phase of Pre-Raphaelitism, l..