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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.

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is a vintage post impressionism landscape painting featuring a view of a city at night with the clouds swirling, the stars shining and a beautiful golden yellow crescent moon.

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.

A Hotel Room (1906/7) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring the interior of a hotel room with a beautiful window with plantation shutters and an open suitcase on the floor.

Trout Stream in the Tyrol (1914) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art landscape featuring a man with fishing gear standing next to a river about to fish for trout.

Gondolas (1899) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art featuring a bridge and romantic gondola boats in a canal in Venice, Italy.

Claude Monet Painting By the Edge of a Wood (c. 1887) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art portrait featuring Claude Monet painting a landscape on a canvas in a meadow by the edge of a forest. His future second wife (Alice Hoschedé) is with him. Done in the "en plein air" style which means in the open air, meant to describe paintings created outside.

A Dinner Table at Night (1884) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring a lady sitting in a restaurant. The woman is sitting at a table with a carafe of red wine.

Noah's Ark (1870) by Joseph Henry Hidley is a vintage fine art religious artwork featuring 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.

Sketch of Santa Sophia (1891) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art interior view of an Orthodox patriarchal basilica, the Hagia Sophia, later a mosque and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Famous for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and to have "changed the history of architecture."

The Earl of Dalhousie (1900) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring the nobleman Lord Dalhousie dressed in an fancy off white suite and burgundy tie posing next to a marble column.

Starry Night Over the Rhone by Vincent van Gogh

Two Wine Glasses (1874) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art impressionism painting featuring two glasses filled with red wine. A garden setting with a gazebo with plants and vines growing on a trellis and a table with a white tablecloth ready for outdoor dining.

Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra (Cirque d'Hiver) (1876) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art featuring conductor Jules Etienne Pasdeloup with his musicians in Paris, France.

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885/86) by John Singer Sargent is a vintage Victorian fine art family scene with two young girls holding Chinese lanterns in a garden with easter lilies.

Still Life of Flowers on a Ledge (1860) by Otto Didrik Ottesen is a vintage Victorian Era floral still life featuring a blooming antique garden rose next to a rosebud with some drops of dew water on the pink petals.

Still Life with Roses and Strawberries on a Silver Salver (aka Nature's Reward) by Otto Didrik Ottesen is a vintage Victorian Era floral still life featuring pink and yellow blooming antique garden roses with peaches, wild berries and fruit on a formal silver serving platter.

Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things (1869) by Sophie Anderson. The full title of this Victorian Era painting is "Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things", a quote by Charles Ede. A vintage fine art Victorian Era fairy tale portrait featuring a beautiful fairy holding a jeweled satchel and wearing a crown of butterflies on her head.

Greyhound and Dog in Landscape, Doctor Fop (c. 1839) by John Frederick Herring Sr. is a vintage Victorian Era fine art animal portrait featuring two dogs, Doctor Fop and a King Charles Spaniel with a landscape painted in the background.

Silver (1886) by Albert Joseph Moore is a vintage Victorian Era fine art portrait featuring a beautiful Grecian woman sitting on a William Morris style floral print sofa.