With Cortes the conqueror (1917), by Virginia Watson. The book was illustrated by the great American artist Frank Earle Schoonover (18...

Too Late (1884) by the British painter Herbert Gustave Carmichael Schmalz (1856-1935). A Greek hero comes back from war but his great lov...

The City Gate by the English painter Ralph Hedley (1848-1913). Headley was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for ...

Making Palmolive 3,000 Years Ago (1920) by the Hungarian-born artist Willy Pogany (1882-1955). Pogany was a prolific illustrator of chil...

Bacchanal (1890) by the Croation painter Mato Celestin Medović (1857-1893). A well done painting about roman decadence. This subject was ...

An illustration by the French artist Paul Lehugeur (1854-1932?) for “Histoire de France en cent tableaux”, Paris, 1886. There is the Gaul...

Le droit du Seigneur (1874) by the Russian painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927). It's highly probale that this medieval rig...

The Discovery of Chile by Diego de Almagro (1913) by the Chilean painter Pedro Subercaseaux Errázuriz (1880-1956). This event is sometime...

Marshal Jean Lannes wounded at the battle of Essling by the French painter Paul-Emile Boutigny (1853-1929).Lannes was one of Napoleon...

The capitulation of Granada, Boabdil confronts Ferdinand and Isabella (1882) by the Spanish artist Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1848-1921)...

Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester (1865) by the British painter William Frederick Yeames (1835-1918). Yeames preferred these idyl...

The Harem Guard by the Czech painter Rudolf Weisse (1869-1930). Despite it's not a decidedly history painting the whole oriental exot...