Will It Rain?, James Charles, 1887

Went to the Sargent and Fashion exhibition last week and wasn’t prepared for this. Excuse the shoddy quality, I was too excited

This photo of me drawing at the Tate Britain Museum in London was taken by my assistant and comic art restoration specialist Allan Harvey back in 2017 - when I still had hair.

I like to do studies of art while in museums, but sometimes I like to wig people out by drawing from my imagination, as I am doing here.

It was fun seeing people trying to figure out what I was copying when I wasn't actually copying anything.

Petty artist thrills. Good times.

I was sitting in front of William Holman Hunt's painting The Lady of Shallot.

Hoping I will visit Tate again one day 🖤

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (British/English, 1889-1946) • A Studio in Montparnasse • exhibited 1926 • Tate, Britain

Cedric Lockwood Morris (British,1889–1982) • Iris Seedlings • 1943• Tate Britain

Théodore Roussel (French, 1847–1926) • The Reading Girl • 1886-87 • Tate, Britain

Tate Britain by vebriisfebruary.

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) "The North-West Passage" (1874) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Located in the Tate Britain, London, England The painting depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book. On the desk is a large chart depicting complex passageways between incompletely charted islands.

Millais exhibited the painting with the subtitle "It might be done and England should do it", a line imagined to be spoken by the aged sailor. The title and subtitle refer to the repeated failure of British expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, a navigable passageway around the north of the American continent. These expeditions "became synonymous with failure, adversity and death, with men and ships battling against hopeless odds in a frozen wilderness." The search for the northwest passage had been undertaken repeatedly since the voyages of Henry Hudson in the early 17th century. The most significant attempt was the 1845 expedition led by John Franklin, which had disappeared, apparently without trace. Subsequent expeditions had found evidence that Franklin's two ships had become stuck in ice, and that the crews had died over a number of years from various causes, some having made unsuccessful attempts to escape across the ice. These later expeditions were also unable to navigate a route between Canada and the Arctic. Millais had the idea for the painting when a new expedition to explore the passage, the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares, was being prepared.

John Singer Sargent - Polly Barnard

The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse (1888). Tate Britain

The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee, 1900

Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851)

?Boats at sea, c.1830–45, Tate Britain

Watercolour on paper

Portrait of Ena Wertheimer: A Vele Gonfie

John Singer Sargent 1904

Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872-1898) • Frontispiece to Chopin’s Third Ballade • 1895 • Tate Britain

Harold Gilman (British, 1876–1919) • Edwardian Interior • c. 1907 • Tate Britain