Aesthete Collection

Oscar Wilde cartoon
Oscar Wilde - IRISH PLAYWRIGHT Cartoon Portrayal

Oscar Wilde - Wilde Thing - T-shirt / poster print design
Oscar Wilde portrait - T-shirt / poster print design WILDE THING

Portrait of Oscar Wilde - Irish Playwright sitting in chair
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) - Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. circa 1885

Dr Christopher Dresser on a rickshaw, Japan
Dr Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) - English designer and theorist - best known as a pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement

Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862)
DND184176 Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862) by Indian School; Private Collection; (add.info.: last Mughal Emperor of India; exiled after Indian Mutiny to Burma by English;); Dinodia

Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862)
DND184178 Portrait of Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862) by Indian School; Private Collection; (add.info.: last Mughal Emperor of India; exiled after Indian Mutiny to Burma by English;); Dinodia

Young Man in the style of a Romantic, 1857 (pencil on paper)
CH251462 Young Man in the style of a Romantic, 1857 (pencil on paper) by Monet, Claude (1840-1926); 47.6x28.9 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) (litho)
STC170356 Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) (litho) by Rothenstein, William (1872-1945); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection

Preliminary Sketch for the Portrait of John Ruskin (graphite on blue paper)
1217800 Preliminary Sketch for the Portrait of John Ruskin (graphite on blue paper) by Millais, John Everett (1829-96); 19.7x12.6 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Aubrey Beardsley in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Menton, France, 1898 (b / w photo)
498407 Aubrey Beardsley in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Menton, France, 1898 (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

"O W"(engraving)
2777083 " O W" (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: " O W." Illustration for Punch, 25 June 1881.); Look and Learn / George Collection

Francis Basset, 1st Baron of Dunstanville, 1778 (oil on canvas)
SCP38083 Francis Basset, 1st Baron of Dunstanville, 1778 (oil on canvas) by Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo (1708-87); 221x157 cm; Prado, Madrid

Lord Berners
Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (1883 - 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, British composer, novelist, painter and aesthete. Usually referred to as Lord Berners Date: 1926

Advertisement for Mrs Corbett at Drayton House, Birmingham, 1897 (litho)
661059 Advertisement for Mrs Corbett at Drayton House, Birmingham, 1897 (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Spring season)

Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1861 (w / c)
FIT65849 Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1861 (w/c) by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Charles (1828-82); Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK; eFitzwilliam Museum; English

Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933
STC93605 Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) (b/w photo) by Hollyer, Frederick (1837-1933); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English

Front cover illustration of Maitresse d Esthetes by Willy (1859-1931) publ
495652 Front cover illustration of Maitresse d Esthetes by Willy (1859-1931) publ. Albin Michel (litho) (b/w photo) by Gottlob

Outline of Interior Decoration, design by E. W. Godwin, illustration from
473755 Outline of Interior Decoration, design by E. W. Godwin, illustration from The British Architect, July 1 1881 (litho) by English School

Portrait of John Ruskin, 1861 (red and some black chalk)
1217349 Portrait of John Ruskin, 1861 (red and some black chalk) by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Charles (1828-82); 48x33.5 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; eAshmolean Museum; English

Oscar Wilde, 1882 (albumen silver print)
3492889 Oscar Wilde, 1882 (albumen silver print) by Sarony, Napoleon (1821-96); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info)

Cover of The Butterfly Magazine, published March 1 1899 (litho and letterpress)
661092 Cover of The Butterfly Magazine, published March 1 1899 (litho and letterpress) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

Design for a Pattern, illustration from Studies in Design
661051 Design for a Pattern, illustration from Studies in Design by Christopher Dresser, published 1875 (colour litho) by Dresser

Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) 1901 (coloured chalk on paper)
STC195016 Portrait of Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) 1901 (coloured chalk on paper) by Bataille, Henry (1872-1922); Private Collection; (add.info)

Portrait of a Young Man
HAT43723 Portrait of a Young Man by Passarotti, Bartolomeo (1529-92); Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; eTyne & Wear Archives & Museums; Italian, out of copyright

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) a Bijou Portrait, from Society (litho) (b / w photo)
STC135748 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) a Bijou Portrait, from Society (litho) (b/w photo) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

Oscar Wilde, 1882 (albumen silver print)
3492888 Oscar Wilde, 1882 (albumen silver print) by Sarony, Napoleon (1821-96); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info)

Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) by Frederick Evans (1853-1943
STC93604 Portrait photograph of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) by Frederick Evans (1853-1943) (b/w photo) by Evans, Frederick Henry (1853-1943); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; British

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Among the Audience (engraving)
STC135745 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Among the Audience (engraving) by Bryan, Alfred Gish (1852-99); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

Aubrey Beardsley, c. 1894 (platinum print)
3492890 Aubrey Beardsley, c.1894 (platinum print) by Evans, Frederick Henry (1853-1943); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Robert de Montesquiou, 1899. Creator: Paul Albert Besnard
Robert de Montesquiou, 1899

Wilde on Us. Something To "Live Up"To in America, June 10, 1882
Wilde on Us. Something To " Live Up" To in America, June 10, 1882

Oscar at the Sea-Shore, August 26, 1882. August 26, 1882. Creator: Thomas Nast
Oscar at the Sea-Shore, August 26, 1882

Oscar Wilde as Narcissus, ca. 1894. ca. 1894. Creator: Thomas Nast
Oscar Wilde as Narcissus, ca. 1894

Portrait of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 1892 (oil on canvas)
XIR53738 Portrait of Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 1892 (oil on canvas) by Blanche, Jacques-Emile (1861-1942); 73.5x60.5 cm; Musee d Orsay, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

Comte De Montesquiou, c1893. Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector. From the 2e collection [Felix Potin, c1893]

Aesthetic Dancers
Two girls performing a graceful outdoor dance. Date: 1930s

The Aesthete by H. M. Bateman
A very modern woman residing in a minimally and fashionably furnished flat gets very excited by one small cactus on her windowsill. Date: 1935

John Gray, 1893 (b / w photo)
XJF486350 John Gray, 1893 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Gray (1866a'1934)

House & Studio for F. Miles Esq. Chelsea, illustration from The British Architect
XJF473756 House & Studio for F. Miles Esq. Chelsea, illustration from The British Architect and Northern Engineer, published December 6 1878 (litho) by English School

The Line of Beauty, cartoon in Punch, published December 9 1879 (litho)
XJF444368 The Line of Beauty, cartoon in Punch, published December 9 1879 (litho) by Du Maurier, George (1834-96); Private Collection; (add.info)

Walter Pater (b / w photo)
XJF366983 Walter Pater (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Walter Pater (1839-94)

Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 1867 (oil on canvas)
XCF266059 Portrait of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 1867 (oil on canvas) by Watts, George Frederick (1817-1904); 64.8x52.1 cm; National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Violet, Duchess of Rutland, 1896 (oil on canvas)
BAL23012 Portrait of Violet, Duchess of Rutland, 1896 (oil on canvas) by Shannon, James Jebusa (1862-1923); 94x71.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Violet Lindsay Manners)

Very surreal French pair below a hanging lantern
Very surreal French pair below a weird-floating hanging lantern. He appears to be an aesthete and writer, decadently draped in his velvet-upholstered chair

Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party Ladies
Botany - The Dandelion - a florid little man! A wow with all the ladies (up to a point!). A pianist, possibly modelled in part on popular Polish pianist Paderewski? Date: circa 1907

Oscar Fingal O Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. Photograph taken in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony

Aesthetic Dancer

Male caricatures by George Ranstead
Two effeminate, aesthetes dressed in rather dandyish clothes, as depicted by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps

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"Aesthete: Celebrating the Artistic Spirit" Immerse yourself in the world of beauty and creativity with Aesthete, a captivating collection that pays homage to the artistic visionaries who shaped our cultural landscape. From Oscar Wilde's witty charm to Dr. Christopher Dresser's exotic adventures in Japan, this compilation is a visual feast for those who appreciate art in all its forms. The journey begins with an iconic image of Oscar Wilde, the quintessential aesthete himself. Dressed in his signature attire, he exudes an air of sophistication and rebellion that captivated audiences then and continues to inspire today. His words echo through time, reminding us to embrace our true selves - after all, "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. " Moving on from Wilde Thing, we delve into a mesmerizing portrait of Aubrey Beardsley. Known for his intricate lithographs and daring illustrations, Beardsley pushed boundaries with his provocative artistry. The intensity captured within this lithograph leaves us longing for more insight into the enigmatic mind behind it. Stepping back further into history, we encounter a preliminary sketch for John Ruskin's portrait - graphite strokes delicately etched onto blue paper. This glimpse into Ruskin's world reveals not only his meticulous attention to detail but also his profound influence on Victorian aesthetics. As we navigate through time and space within Aesthete's realm, we stumble upon Lord Berners' enchanting presence - an embodiment of elegance and eccentricity intertwined. His vibrant personality shines through every stroke of paint on canvas as he effortlessly blurs the lines between reality and imagination. Mrs Corbett at Drayton House beckons us next with her enticing advertisement from 1897 - a lithograph brimming with opulence and allure. Her grandeur invites us into her world where refinement meets indulgence; she becomes both muse and inspiration.