William’s work is defined by its chinoiserie sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
Library Ladder
William France (born England, 1759–1838) London Made for Badminton House, Badminton, Gloucestershire, England
Bedcover
Mary Elizabeth (née Motter) Tansill (American, 1847-1936) United States, Illinois, Clayton
Century Quilt
Mary Abigail Fessenden (American, 1816–1904/5) Maine, United States
Fragment of a Quilt
United States
Khayamiya
Egypt
Tavern Club, Interior Perspective of Mural, Chicago, Illinois, Presentation Drawing
Winold Reiss American, 1886–1953
Interior at Nice
Henri Matisse French, 1869–1954
Nothing is Enough
Frances Stark American, born 1967
Saint William of Maleval
After Salvator Rosa Italian, 1615-1673 Carlo Antonini ? c.1740 - c.1784
Women Fighting
William Rothenstein English, 1872-1945
Anne of Austria, Queen of France
Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678) after Pierre Mignard I (French, 1612-1695)
Hyères, France
Henri Cartier-Bresson French, 1908–2004
Landscape in Provence
André Derain French, 1880-1954
Hollyhock House
Frances Myers American, born 1938
Landscape at Cagnes
Chaim Soutine French, born Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus), 1893–1943
James William Wallack
Charles Robert Leslie American, born England, 1794–1859
Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Alice
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
The Roll Call of the Last Victims of the Terror
Charles Louis-Lucien Muller (French, 1815–1892)
The Circle of the Thieves; Agnolo Brunelleschi Attacked by a Six-Footed Serpent. Inferno, canto XXV
William Blake English, 1757-1827