Walker Art Gallery

Ariadne's Gallery holds 30 works in the Walker Art Gallery collection by 23 artists, most made between 1534 and 1951. The best represented artists are Joseph Wright, William Holman Hunt and Albert Joseph Moore. The main styles are Romanticism, Rococo and Academicism. Compared with the rest of Ariadne's Gallery, these works most often evoke tension.

Emotional profile

Sadness: 35 (collection average 34)
Joy: 46 (collection average 46)
Tension: 50 (collection average 48)
Anger: 23 (collection average 23)
Nostalgia: 49 (collection average 47)
Wonder: 50 (collection average 48)
Interest: 57 (collection average 57)

Leading artists

Artworks

Birth of the Virgin by Pietro Perugino, 1470 - 1473 — Anger 8, Joy 28, Sadness 15
The Nymph of the Fountain by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1534 — Anger 8, Sadness 19, Wonder 32
Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1537 — Interest 70, Wonder 60, Joy 55
River Scene with Ferry Boat by Salomon van Ruysdael, 1650 — Wonder 50, Nostalgia 45, Interest 55
David Garrick as Richard III by William Hogarth, 1745 — Joy 50, Interest 60, Anger 25
Miss Elizabeth Ingram by Joshua Reynolds, 1757 — Sadness 50, Joy 45, Interest 55
Isabella, Viscountess Molyneux by Thomas Gainsborough, 1769 — Nostalgia 64, Wonder 55, Interest 60
Isabella,Viscountess Molyneux, Later Countess of Sefton by Thomas Gainsborough, 1769 — Joy 74, Wonder 60, Interest 65
Portrait of Fleetwood Hesketh by Joseph Wright, 1769 — Interest 75, Joy 70, Wonder 60
A Horse Frightened by a Lion by George Stubbs, 1770 — Tension 85, Sadness 59, Wonder 55
The Annual Girandola, at the Castle of St.Angelo, Rome by Joseph Wright, 1776 — Anger 70, Tension 80, Sadness 40
The Lady in Milton's Comus by Joseph Wright, 1785 — Interest 75, Joy 70, Wonder 60
The Eve of Saint Agnes by William Holman Hunt, 1857 — Nostalgia 85, Sadness 75, Tension 65
Robert Braithwaite Martineau by William Holman Hunt, 1860 — Joy 71, Wonder 65, Interest 70
The Shulamite by Albert Joseph Moore, c.1865 — Wonder 55, Joy 54, Interest 61
The Murder by Paul Cezanne, c.1868 — Anger 80, Sadness 85, Tension 90
The Matyr of the Solway by John Everett Millais, 1871 — Tension 84, Anger 55, Sadness 65
The Triumph of the Innocents by William Holman Hunt, 1876 — Interest 91, Wonder 85, Joy 90
Elijah in the Wilderness by Frederic Leighton, 1878 — Joy 50, Nostalgia 45, Wonder 45
One of the Family by Frederick George Cotman, 1880 — Nostalgia 50, Anger 25, Sadness 35
Psyche in the Temple of Love by Edward Poynter, 1882 — Anger 54, Tension 76, Sadness 50
Woman Ironing by Edgar Degas, 1884 - 1886 — Sadness 69, Nostalgia 65, Tension 55
The Choice by Frances Macdonald, 1886 — Joy 80, Interest 75, Wonder 70
A Summer Night by Albert Joseph Moore, 1890 — Interest 65, Nostalgia 55, Joy 55
Spona de Libano (The Bride of Lebanon) by Edward Burne-Jones, 1891 — Nostalgia 70, Sadness 54, Wonder 60
Lady in Pink by Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1902 — Joy 45, Wonder 40, Anger 10
Interior at Paddington by Lucian Freud, 1951 — Sadness 55, Nostalgia 54, Tension 49
Still Life: Autumn Fashion by Patrick Caulfield, 1978 — Wonder 65, Nostalgia 64, Sadness 50
Adoration of the Shepherds by Mattia Preti — Joy 90, Nostalgia 70, Interest 75
Christ in the House of Simon by Mattia Preti — Joy 80, Nostalgia 60, Interest 64

Museums with works by the same artists

Musée d'Orsay (521)
Tate Britain (135)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (48)
Art Institute of Chicago (228)
Yale Centre For British Art (Yale University) (58)
British Museum (211)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) (147)
Norton Simon Museum (50)