We looked forward to our Tate Britain visit and as promised, Gabriella got to bliss out in a gallery full of drowsy,  half-dead maidens. It’s definitely my favourite room in the Tate!

We both liked Turner’s watercolours and sketchbooks a lot more than his paintings. I did like The Battle of Trafalgar though.

Interesting story about these two. The Cholmondeley Sisters married on the same day and then gave birth together on the same day a year later. Today, they would be featured in People magazine with a double-page spread, but because it was the early 17th century, they got a pretty awesome commemorative portrait!

This beautiful charcoal sketch is of a French woman abandonned by the artist (a student) after a brief affair.

Here is JC as a child at home, a topic which I’ve rarely seen and I really like this painting. And poor Ophelia! A friend tells me the pond location for this painting is a small tributary of the Thames that runs off into Kingston. (Both paintings by Millais)