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By popular request, a retirement home for past home page background illustrations. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger version in the main image. The tooltip contains additional information.

The illustrations are in no particular order at the moment (August 2019), but subsequent additions will be in order of their appearance.

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Alan Cotton, 'North Cornwall, Ebb Tide at Yoel Mouth', ND. Carl Holsoe, 'Interior with Woman and Child, ND. David Adolph Constant Artz, 'Interior of the Katwijk Orphanage', c1870. Peder Ilsted, 'On the Porch, Liselund', 1917. Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 'Old Newlyn', 1884. Willem van de Velde II, 'Entrance to a Dutch Port', c1665. Camille Pissarro, 'View from Louveciennes', 1869-70. Aureliano de Beruete y Moret, 'Flowering Hawthorn', ND.
Johann Christian Klengel, 'Winterlandschaft', ND. Charles-François Daubigny, 'Apple Blossoms', 1873. Pierre-Auguste Cot, 'Springtime', 1873. Antropov Kuindzhi, 'Ladoga Lake', 1870. Lorenzo J Hatch, 'Sketch on the Potomac', 1883. Emil Carlsen, 'The South Strand', 1909. John Lavery, 'Played!!', 1885. John Sharman, 'At the End of the Porch', 1918.
Jules Bastien-Lepage, 'Hay Making', 1877. Anton Mauve, 'Gathering Wood', ND. Anton Mauve, 'A Cottage by a Ditch', c1880. Claude Monet, 'Cabin of the Customs Watch', 1882. Frederick Childe Hassam, 'The Promenade, Winter in New York', 1895. John Atkinson Grimshaw, 'At the Park Gate', 1878. Carel Fabritius, 'The Goldfinch', 1654 Henriette Browne, GirlWriting, ND.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'Calais Pier', 1803. Albert Neuhuys, 'The Fisherman’s Courtship', 1880. Carl Holsoe, 'Interior with a Cello', ND. Elioth Gruner, 'Frosty Morning', 1915. Simon Alexandre-Clement Denis, 'Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome', ND Edward Cucuel, 'Autumn', ND. Paul Henry, 'Landscape with Cottage', c1929-34. Adam de Coster, 'Young Woman Holding a Distaff Before a Lit Candle', ND.
Douglass Crockwell, 'Paper Workers', 1934. Édouard-Léon Cortes, 'Arc de Triomphe, Paris Winter', ND. Henri Le Sidaner, 'Snow, Guincamp', 1918. John Atkinson Grimshaw, 'Under the Moonbeams, Knostrop Hill', ND. Jacob Maris, 'A Windmill and Houses Beside Water Stormy Sky', c1885. Honoré Daumier, 'The Laundress', 1863. Carlos de Haes, 'Cliffs, Guethay', c1881. Arnold Böcklin, 'Liebespaar auf einem Hügel', c1863.
Norman Rockwell, 'When the Doctor Treats Your Child', 1939. Charles-François Daubigny, 'Apple Blossoms', 1873. Kurt Schwitters, 'Cherry Picture', 1921. Winslow Homer, 'Haymaking', 1864. Vincent van Gogh, 'View of Paris', 1886. Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 'The Terminus, Penzance Station', ND. Max Volkhart, 'Good News', c1890. Charles-François Daubigny, 'Landscape with a Sunlit Stream', 1877.
Henri Joseph Harpignies, 'Fir Trees in Les Trembleaux', 1854. Alfred Thompson Bricher, 'Quiet Day near Manchester', 1873. Henri Fantin-Latour, 'Nature morte primev res poires et grenades', 1866. Caravaggio, 'Boy with a Basket of Fruit', c1593. Paul Trouillebert, 'Bank of the Loire Near Chouze', ND. Camille Corot, 'Landscape at Coubron', c1870. Pieter Gerardus van Os, 'The Canal at s-Graveland', 1818. Gustave Courbet, 'Beach Scene', 1874.
August Strindberg, 'The Town', 1903. Frederick Childe Hassam, 'Winter Morning on Broadway', 1904. Heyman Dullaert, 'Wandstilleven', 1653-1684. William Fettes Douglas, 'Self Portrait', c1845. Mihaly Munkacsy, 'A Night Wanderer', ND. Isidre Nonell, 'Pequín Beach, Barcelona', 1901. Frits Thaulow, 'River', 1883. Camille Pissarro, 'Peasants in the Fields, Eragny', 1890.
Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen, 'A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier', c1644-48. Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski, 'The Coach Journey', ND. Werner Van Den Valckert, 'A Girl Holding Pancakes', 1624. Hale Aspacio Woodruff, 'Les Bords de l'Eure, Chartres', ND. Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa, 'Almond Trees, Mallorca', ND. John La Farge, 'Magnolia', 1859. Giovanni Segantini, 'Ave Maria a Trasbordo', 1882. Giovanni Segantini, 'Mittag in Den Alpen', 1891.
Vilhelm Hammershoi, 'Sonnige Stube', 1905.              

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