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Angel of Death (detail) (1890) by Evelyn De Morgan is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite fine art featuring the Angel of Death coming for a beautiful young woman pleading for her life.

Earthbound (1897) by Evelyn De Morgan is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite fine art featuring an old king with a long, white beard is hunched over his pile of gold coins while the dark Angel of Death approaches him.

Flora, the Goddess of Blossoms and Flowers (aka Lady Flora) (1894) by Evelyn De Morgan is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite portrait painting.

An Angel Piping to the Souls in Hell (c. 1916) by Evelyn De Morgan is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite fine art painting. Come from afar the Angel bends over the abyss and pipes her angelic strains that the flame-tossed souls in Hell may hear the distant music.

Hope in a Prison of Despair (1887) by Evelyn De Morgan is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite fine art featuring Hope's saint-like halo suggesting the comfort brought by religious faith. Hope is holding a lamp and entering the dungeon where Despair is shown as another human figure bowed down with deep sadness and grief.

Musician Angels by Hans Zatzka is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite fine art featuring three angels with guitars and mandolins and reading sheet music.

Peaceable Kingdom (c.1834) by Edward Hicks is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring wild animals, farm animals, children and Native American Indians signing a peace treaty with the settlers.

Noah's Ark (1846) by Edward Hicks is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring a popular bible story featuring pairs of wild animals boarding an ark built by Noah. Dark storm clouds are in the sky as birds are flying around. The ark is the vessel which, according to the Book of Genesis, was built by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family and the world's animals from a worldwide deluge. The narrative features in a number of Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

At Aphrodite's Cradle (1908) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring beautiful women leaning on a marble wall on a balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Venus is the Roman goddess of love and lust.

This is Our Corner (Laurense and Anna) (1873) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art family portrait featuring the daughters of the artist, Laurense and Anna.

Eton College Chapel (1885) by Anna Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring the church through a stone archway with a cobblestone path leading to the steps.

Pandora (1881) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait painting featuring a beautiful woman holding a decorative urn by the ocean. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by the gods, specifically by Hephaestus and Athena on the instructions of Zeus. According to the myth, Pandora opened a pithos releasing all the evils of humanity and leaving only hope behind.

Ninety Four Degrees in the Shade (1876) by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring a young boy reading a book in the shade in a farm field on a hot, sunny summer day.

Summer Offering (1911) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring two beautiful young women holding bouquets of blooming garden roses during the summer.

An Oleander (1882) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring a young woman sitting in a Grecian courtyard smelling flowers.

A Coign Of Vantage (1895) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring three young Grecian women wearing long flowing dresses .They are standing at the corner of a balcony with a lion statue overlooking the beautiful blue Mediterranean Sea.

Ask Me No More (1906) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art love and romance portrait featuring a young man kissing a beautiful woman's hand with the blue of the Mediterranean Sea behind them.

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring Sappho listening intently to the poet Alcaeus while he plays the kithara.

The Days of Creation, 1st Day (c. 1870) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vintage Victorian Pre-Raphaelite religious portrait featuring an angel holding an orb that represents the earth. It is day one of a series that depicts the creation of the earth by God.

The Bath of Venus (c. 1873-1879) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vintage Victorian Pre-Raphaelite fine art portrait featuring the Roman Goddess of Love, Venus.

Angeli Laudantes (1894) by Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones is an antique tapestry design featuring a portrait of two angels playing the harp.

Temperantia (Temperance) (1872) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vintage Victorian Pre-Raphaelite fine art portrait featuring a woman pouring water from a jug to put out the flames of a fire at her feet. Temperantia is an ancient Roman goddess who embodies the concept of temperance and moderation.

The Tree of Forgiveness (1881) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vintage Victorian Pre-Raphaelite fine art portrait featuring Phyllis reappearing to Demophoon and embracing him.

An Angel Playing a Flageolet (1878) by Sir Edward Coley Burne Jones is a vintage Victorian Era Pre-Raphaelite portrait painting featuring an angel playing music on a flageolet.

Saint Michael (1873) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones is a vintage Victorian stained glass window in a church featuring archangel St. Michael holding a sword.

Winged Figure Seated Upon a Rock (c. 1900) by Abbott Thayer is a vintage Victorian Era fine art realism portrait featuring an angel sitting on a rock.

Angel by Abbott Thayer is a vintage Victorian Era fine art realism portrait featuring an angel with open wings.

Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy (1907) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring a double portrait in a garden with a fountain in the Italian town of Frascati. Sargent’s friends and fellow artists Wilfrid and Jane Emmet de Glehn.

Portrait of Madame X (1884) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring a young socialite wearing a black satin dress with jeweled straps. Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of Pierre Gautreau.

Theodore Roosevelt (1903) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait painting. This is the official White House Portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Henry Cabot Lodge (1890) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924). He was a historian and a Republican Senator from Massachusetts who received his PhD in history from Harvard. Lodge was also a close friend and confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt. Lodge had the role (but not official title) of the first Senate Majority Leader.

The Sketchers (1914) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art featuring two artists painting under some trees.

Breakfast in the Loggia (1910) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring Lady Richmond (wife of Sir William Blake Richmond) and Jane de Glehn and eating breakfast. From the patio of the Villa Torre Galli at Scandicci on the outskirts of Florence, where Sargent stayed with a party of friends during the autumn of 1910.

An Artist in His Studio (1904) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring Ambrogio Raffele (a painter friend of Sargent's) is painting a landscape on canvas. The bed and desk double as an artist's easel.

Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot (1888) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring Dennis Miller Bunker (an American Impressionism painter) painting in a meadow with Sargent's sister Violet. They are in Calcot, England.

Pomegranates (1908) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art featuring a branch from a pomegranate tree in an orchard grove.