It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

David Brewster, an engraving by William Holl after a painting by Henry Raeburn

The Ale-House Door ( painting of c. 1790 by Henry Singleton )

A dog noted as being a Gazelle Hound is featured in a painting of Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, painted in 1514, by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basil's ultimate muse.

From there it spread to England, where Henry VIII owned, in an inventory of 1549, an agate cup with a " fote and Couer of siluer and guilt enbossed with Rebeske worke ", and William Herne or Heron, Serjeant Painter from 1572 to 1580, was paid for painting Elizabeth I's barge with " rebeske work ".

Her friend the geologist Henry De la Beche assisted her by commissioning Georg Scharf to make a lithographic print based on De la Beche's watercolour painting, Duria Antiquior, portraying life in prehistoric Dorset that was largely based on fossils Anning had found.

Illustrations of scenes from " deep time " ( now known as paleoart ), such as Henry De la Beche's ground-breaking painting Duria Antiquior, helped convince people that it was possible to understand life in the distant past.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

A large painting by Henry Tonks hanging in UCL's Flaxman Gallery depicts Bentham approving the plans of the new university, but it was executed in 1922 and the scene is entirely imaginary.

Inspired by narrow views of a Tudor garden that can be seen through doorways in a painting, The Family of Henry VIII, hanging in the palace's Haunted Gallery, a new garden in the style of Henry VIII's 16th-century Privy Gardens has been designed to celebrate the anniversary of that King's accession to the throne.

Oil painting by Kenneth King from the National Maritime Museum of IrelandThe first Q-ship victory was on 23 June 1915, when U-40 was sunk off Eyemouth by the submarine HMS C24, cooperating with the decoy vessel Taranaki, commanded by Lieutenant Frederick Henry Taylor CBE DSC RN.

To realize his true vision, Barker and his son, Henry Aston Barker, took on the task of painting a scene of the Albion Mills.

Telemachus departing from Nestor, painting by Henry Howard ( artist ) | Henry Howard ( 1769 – 1847 )

In the church itself there are several paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries ( amongst others Dirk Bouts famous painting of the last supper ) and the grave of Duke Henry I of Brabant.

" Portrait of Henry James ", oil painting by John Singer Sargent ( 1913 )

* Henry Fuseli, Swiss-born British artist, professor of painting and keeper of the Royal Academy

The two putti with reddish hair who accompany her may be representations of the two Stuart Princes living in exile, Charles ( Bonnie Prince Charlie-the ' Young Pretender ') and Henry Stuart, who were children at the time the painting was executed.

After the publication in The Times of a letter of support for the exhibition, asking that something from the show be purchased for the national collection ( signed by, among others, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Geoffrey Grigson, Rebecca West, Naomi Mitchison, Henry Moore and Eric Gill ) the Tate Gallery bought the painting, Red Scene.

19th century painting on display at Versailles, Yvelines | Versailles depicting Adhemar of Le Puy ( in red to left of Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse ).

His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980.

During the studies Kandinsky made in preparation for Composition IV, he became exhausted while working on a painting and went for a walk.

* In The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror IV ", Homer is seen chasing Bart in a painting parodying the famous M. C.

Though his first Italian visit is recognized as a crucial chapter in the development of Velázquez's style – and in the history of Spanish Royal Patronage, since Philip IV sponsored his trip – we know rather little about the details and specifics: what the painter saw, whom he met, how he was perceived and what innovations he hoped to introduce into his painting.

This legend is commemorated today by a large painting, at Haggerston Branch Library, of Jane Shore being retrieved from the ditch, and by a design on glazed tiles in a shop in Shoreditch High Street showing her meeting Edward IV.

The video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features an alternative hellish world called " Oblivion ", as well as a painting you can climb into and a quest where you enter a dream world.

The painting shows a large room in the Madrid palace of King Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured, according to some commentators, in a particular moment as if in a snapshot.

According to López-Rey, the painting has three focal points: the Infanta Margarita, the self-portrait and the half-length reflected images of Philip IV and Queen Mariana.

Francisco Goya etched a print of Las Meninas in 1778, and later used Velázquez's painting as the model for his Charles IV of Spain and His Family.

George V visited Lavery's studio during the execution of the painting, and, perhaps remembering the legend that Philip IV had daubed the cross of the Knights of Santiago on the figure of Velázquez, asked Lavery if he could contribute to the portrait with his own hand.

Naval painting became conventionalized in 17th century Dutch Golden Age painting, and from then on artists tended to specialize in it or not attempt it ; apart from anything else " Marine artists have always dealt with a particularly demanding class of patron ", as JMW Turner found when the " Sailor King " William IV of England rejected his version of The Battle of Trafalgar because of inaccuracy.

A rare oil painting by a leading artist that treats soldiers in the spirit of the uniform print is Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons ( the " Prince of Wales Own ") painted in 1793 by George Stubbs for their Colonel in Chief, the future George IV of England.

Hay offered the painting to the Prince Regent, later George IV of England, via Sir Thomas Lawrence.

It shows similarities to the manuscript painting of Pol de Limbourg, but like the other surviving portrait of Richard, in Westminster Abbey, is also closely related in themes to paintings made in Prague for Anne's father Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and her brother Wenceslas, King of the Romans.

He recently developed the album artwork for Coheed and Cambria's album, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow, and a painting of his was used as the cover art for Alabama Thunderpussy's 2007 release, Open Fire.

This painting depicts how the Danish king Valdemar IV ( a. k. a. Valdemar Atterdag ) collects treasures from the people in the Gotlandic medieval town of Visby in the summer of 1361 AD.

Velázquez's patron, the art-loving King Philip IV, held a number of nudes by Titian and Rubens, and Velázquez, as the king's painter, need not have feared painting such a picture.

The court of Philip IV greatly " appreciated painting in general, and the nude in particular, but ... at the same time, exerted unparalleled pressure on artists to avoid the depiction of the naked human body.

Anguissola traveled to Rome, where she was introduced to Michelangelo who immediately recognized her talent, Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, Madrid, which was a turning point in her career serving as a court painter and painting many official portraits for the Spanish court, and Palermo, Pisa, and Genoa, where she was the leading portrait painter.

A posthumous painting commissioned around 1670 by Philippe I, Duke of Orléans | Philippe de France. It shows the French Bourbon Family around that time.

He was sent on several diplomatic missions on behalf of the Duke, and worked on several projects which likely entailed more than painting, such as his difficult journey to faraway Lisbon.

Anne with her son William, Duke of Gloucester, in a painting from the school of Godfrey Kneller | Sir Godfrey Kneller, circa 1694

A commission came in 1816 or 1817 from the family of the celebrated Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, for a painting of the Duke receiving papal honors for his repression of the Protestant Reformation.

" A painting of this supposed incident was commissioned in 1778 by the then Duke of Rutland, but was destroyed in a fire in 1816.

The painting was painted just before Georgiana's marriage to the Duke of Devonshire

The painting remained in Morgan's family until 1994, when it was put up for sale at Sotheby's and was purchased by the 11th Duke of Devonshire for the Chatsworth House collection.

Noted artist Daphne Todd was commissioned for the painting, who has had such notable sitters as HRH the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Spike Milligan.

The sales continued to denude the palace: Raphael's " Ansidei Madonna " was sold for £ 70, 000 ; Van Dyck ’ s equestrian painting of Charles I realised £ 17, 500 ; and finally the " piece de resistance " of the collection, Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Peter Paul, which had been given by the city of Brussels to the 1st Duke in 1704, was also sold, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage ( by Jan Matejko, 1882, National Museum, Kraków ): Albert, Duke of Prussia | Albert receives eastern Prussia as a fief from King Sigismund I the Old | Sigismund I of Poland in 1525.

In similar fashion the Limbourg brothers ' masterpiece the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry was followed within a few years by the Turin-Milan Hours, a continuation of a manuscript started decades before by the Parement Master for the Duke of Berry, which despite a Gothic framework pioneered a very different style of painting.

Duke Franz previously acquired the Artemisia painting for four times the original price because he was deeply in love with Augusta, but he had to marry a relative, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

* Crime: A painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the Madonna with the Yarnwinder is stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch.

From 1885 to 1887 Pater published four new imaginary portraits in Macmillan's Magazine, each set at a turning-point in the history of ideas or art – ' A Prince of Court Painters ' ( 1885 ) ( on Watteau and Jean-Baptiste Pater ), ' Sebastian van Storck ' ( 1886 ) ( 17th-century Dutch society and painting, and the philosophy of Spinoza ), ' Denys L ' Auxerrois ' ( 1886 ) ( the medieval cathedral-builders ), and ' Duke Carl of Rosenmold ' ( 1887 ) ( the German Renaissance ).

" The works of his later years include " Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the Storm ," a picture immense in size and most powerful in conception finished in 1842, and now preserved in the Trinity House, Leith ; the " Duke of Gloucester entering the Water Gate of Calais " ( 1841 ); the " Alchemist " ( 1818 ), " Queen Elizabeth at the Globe Theatre " ( 1840 ) and " Peter the Hermit " ( 1845 ), remarkable for varied and elaborate character painting ; and " Ariel and Caliban " ( 1837 ) and the " Triumph of Love " ( 1846 ), distinguished by beauty of colouring and depth of poetic feeling.

* Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, commissioned the famous Venus of Urbino painting.

Fictional " Duke of Lerma ", painting by Mikhail Lermontov

The Baptism of Duke Bořivoj, a historical painting by Václav Ignác Leopold Markovský