The Miller's Daughter, Tennyson
- Artist: VINTER; John Alfred (1828 - 1905)
- Production Date: 1859
- Production Period:
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Object Name: Oil Painting
- Object Name: Portrait
- ObjectNumber: OP190
- Summary: Oil painting showing a man and a woman sat in a lush green landscape. The man is leaning forward and his head is bowed. The woman is looking at him.
- Description: "And now those vivid hours are gone, Like mine own life to me though art, Where Past and Present wound in one, Do make a garland for the heart, So sing that other song I made, Half-anger'd with my happy lot, The day, when in the Chestnut shade, I found the blue forget-me-not." This is snippet from the poem 'The Miller's Daughter' by Alfred Tennyson that is painted on the frame containing Vinter's painting. In this picture it looks like the miller's daughter is being courted by the male admirer sitting next of her. The poem is probably written from this man's point of view and he obviously loves her. It is painted as a memory of a love from the past. Like many of the Pre-Raphaelites, this work looks like it was partly painted outside. Though he disagreed with some of their values Vinter seems to have agreed with their plein-air ideals.
- Dimensions: Unframed: 91 x 62 cm: Framed: 120 x 92 cm
- Colour: Green
- Technique:
- Painted
- Material:
- Canvas
- Oil paint
- Tags:
- Poetry
- English poetry
- Literature
- Love
- Romance
- Art collections
- Victorian period
- Oil painting
- Fine arts
- Love and Marriage
- People
- Paintings
- Landscape
- Plants
- Men
- Women
- Dresses
- Romances
- Poems
- English poems
- Flowers
- Trees
- Ponds
- Lakes
- Love stories
- Rural areas
- Rural life
- Countryside
- Country life
- Open spaces
- Waterfalls
- Narrative painting
- Tennyson
- Highlights
- Oil Paintings
- For more information contact: Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service
