William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter ... he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1850. Bouguereau’s life-sized oil paintings of mythological narratives were highly detailed. With ...

This life-size oil painting took four years to completeSir Watkin Williams-Wynn was the richest Welshman of his day, with great estates in north Wales. Before he died in 1789, he had spent much of ...